The validity and reliability study of work motivation scale for Turkish population

The sample of the study was composed of 401 academicians working in the departments of Physical Education and Sports of Turkish universities. The mean age of the subject group was 39.53 +/- 7.60 year. In the data gathering process Work Motivation Scale, which was composed of 31 items group under 8 subscales, was used. In the statistical analysis exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted to the data. The exploratory factor analysis results revealed that 27 items of the total scale was grouped under six sub-factors which have an eigenvalue greater than 1. The first sub-factor was composed of items 2, 6, 10, 17, 21, 25, and 31. The second sub-factor was consisted of items 1, 16, 24, 26, 27, and 29. The items 8, 15, 23, and 30 were grouped under third sub-factor: 13, 20, and 28 items comprised the fourth sub-factor and the fifth sub-factor was composed of items 12, 7, 14 and 11, and the last sub-factor was composed of items 5,4 and 3. The internal consistencies of the subscales varied between 0.62 and 0.88. The internal consistency valve of the overall scale was 0.81. According to the confirmatory factor analysis the construct validity values of the sub-factors differed between 0.631 and 0.869.