Assessing Measurement Invariance of Behavioral Tendency Model for College and University Students Participating in In-line Hockey between Male and Female Groups

Ajzen’s (1985) Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was referred to as the architecture by this study, using SEM to construct the behavioral tendency causal model for university students participating in in-line hockey. The university students participating in in-line hockey were taken as the research subjects and Ajzen’s (1985) Theory of Planned Behavior was used as the reference. In addition, the modified planned behavior scale of behavior attitude scale for college and university students participating in tennis proposed by Chang and Lai (2005) were adopted as the research tool. The scale was found to feature good convergent validity, discriminate validity and composite reliability. The research results indicate that H1 attitude of university students participating in in-line hockey has a positive impact towards behavioral tendency with a path coefficient of .43 (p<.01), and so H1 is supported. H2 subjective norm of university students participating in in-line hockey has a positive impact towards behavioral tendency with a path coefficient of .16 (p>.01), and so H2 is not supported. H3 perceived behavioral control of university students participating in in-line hockey has a positive impact towards behavioral tendency with a path coefficient of .54 (p<.01), and so H3 is supported. The results have verified that the measurement invariance assessment for college and university students participating in in-line hockey is incongruence between male and female groups.