Preliminary Revision on Elderly Fitness Mental Demand Satisfaction Scale

According to Wilson,Rogers,Rodgers,and Wild "PNSE scale",translated and revised,this paper establishes Chinese "exercise psychological need satisfaction scale" to suit to the elderly fitness psychological need satisfaction measurement.Taking the exercise habit of 684 middle-aged and old people in Hangzhou,Shanghai,Wuhan as object of study,the exploratory factor analysis,confirmatory factor analysis,and methods of measurement invariance for data analysis are made.A survey of three areas 4519 elderly people were to formally revised questionnaire,through the table data multivariate analysis of variance on the quantity,the scale was established gender and age norms.The results showed that after the exploratory factor analysis,three subscales are obtained,respectively named the feeling of competence,autonomy,and relevance,table explain variance was 79.12%,total internal consistency coefficient of 0.93.After the confirmatory factor analysis,it showed that observed variables and latent variables had good reliability,convergent validity,and the difference between validity,and gender measurement invariance.Finally,it concluded that the Chinese scale has good letter,validity and construct validity.The establishment of the norm of the scale utility has more targeted.