SPORTS EVENTS QUALITY SCALE (SEQS): A DEVELOPMENT and VALIDATION STUDY

Abstract

The aim of this research was, to develop a valid and reliable tool that intended to measure the perceptions of football fans, related with the quality of sports events. Participants of the study was determined by criterion sampling, that is one of the purposeful sampling methods. Our first criteria for participants of this research was, to be a fans' of a team in the Super League on 2021-2022 season, and our second criteria was, to attend the events twice in their team's stadiums, as a spectator on the same season. Totally 599 volunteer participants were involved in this study. Data from 361 participants were used for Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and data from 238 participants were used for Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). Findings of EFA were demonstrated a structure with 10 factors, and factor loads of items in these factors were between .46 and .96. And CFA results displayed that the RMSEA value of the model was .063, and other goodness-of-fit indexes were among acceptable values. Also coefficients of Cronbach's alpha were observed between .821 and .933. These findings revealed that the scale consisted of 42 items, under its 10-dimensional structure and the sports events quality variable of this structure explained a significant variance of 73.23%. These findings revealed that the scale consisted of 42 items, under its 10-dimensional structure and the event quality variable of this structure explained a significant variance of 73.23%. In conclusion, it can be accepted that Sport Event Quality Scale (SEQS) is a valid and reliable measurement tool for Turkish culture.