Psychometric properties of the rating scale sports organizations EPOD

Autor: Alberto Nuviala Nuviala, Javier Antonio Tamayo Fajardo, Román Nuviala Nuviala, José Antonio González Jurado, Antonio Fernández Martínez
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Retos: Nuevas Tendencias en Educación Física, Deportes y Recreación, Iss 18, Pp 82-87 (2010)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1579-1726
1988-2041
Popis: The understanding of user satisfaction and consumers of services is a necessity for those responsible for them. There’s a variety of instruments that assess the perceived quality but are criticized for several reasons: concepts, procedures, lack of specificity... EPOD is a scale with 29 items integrated in four dimensions, direct practical application which had been previously validated. However, nobody had checked the psychometric properties of the instrument. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine them. The sample was 463 users of sports services who were given the instrument. The results show good internal and external validity, while it has a high reliability. Therefore, EPOD becomes a tool to assess the perceived quality of service provided by the sports organizations in a valid, reliable, simple and brief way, considering the different dimensions that make up the provision of sports services.
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