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ABSTRACT:
Sport officials, coaches, and players possess power to the extent that they have the ability to influence or change the attitudes or behaviors of others. French and Raven (1959) identified five different sources of interpersonal power that have relevance for sport settings: reward, coercive, referent, legitimate, and expert power. The current investigation was designed to develop a psychometrically sound instrument for use in assessing these bases of power (labeled the Power in Sport Questionnaire, PSQ) and to use the instrument to examine the power of sport coaches and officials. Two forms of the PSQ were constructed. Form PSQ-O (other) involved perceptions of the power of others while the PSQ-S (self) involved perceptions of one's own power. In the first study, data were collected from college varsity and college intramural athletes, coaches, and officials. The results revealed that both forms of the PSQ were internally consistent, reliable, contained construct validity; and contained the appropriate five factors. A second study documented the criterion validity of the instrument. Discussion centers on comparisons of PSQ-O and PSQ-S scores.
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