Short Version Adaptation of External and Internal Motivation Scales for Sport Spectators and A Multi Variable Relationship Implementation

In this study, in order to be shorter and more useful, it is aimed to apply confirmatory factor analysis to the external motivations scale for sport spectators (emsss) and the internal motivations scale for sport spectators (imsss) as well as to analyze the relations with canonical correlation analysis method. the study group of the research carried out by applying the relational screening model consisted of 310 volunteer students watching sports competitions and studying in different departments of a university. in the study, the external motivations scale for sport spectators (emsss) and the internal motivations scale for sport spectators (imsss) developed by polat and yalçın (2014) were used as data collection tools. in order to test the model structure of the developed scales, first level confirmatory factor analysis (cfa) and then reliability analyzes were performed. lisrel and spss software were used for these analyzes. in addition, canonical correlation analysis was performed to determine multiple relationships between scales using ncss statistics program. according to the initial dfa analysis for both scales; 9 sub-dimensional structures were preserved for emsss, and the number of items from 34 was reduced to 25. for imsss, while 7 sub-dimensions did not change, the 40-item scale was reduced to 21. when the canonical correlation results are examined, it is found that the first four variable pairs are significant. according to the meaningful first two pairs of variables, independent variables consisting of external watching motives explained 71% of the dependent variables consisting of internal watching motives. in the first pair of variables, the game knowledge dimension from the external motives and the skill level dimension from the internal motives made the most relational contribution. according to this result, it can be said that the knowledge level of the spectators and the sports skills reflected by the athletes have more important effects on the development and interaction of other motives.