The purpose of present paper was to review measurement issues and provide future directions for measurement development in sport and exercise psychology. In the review processes, it was found that cross-cultural measurement issures had not received a ...
The purpose of present paper was to review measurement issues and provide future directions for measurement development in sport and exercise psychology. In the review processes, it was found that cross-cultural measurement issures had not received a great deal of attention in the sport and exerice psychology testing literature. Furtermore, researchers had not concerned that an important meaurement objective was the evaluation of intervention effectiveness, yet a breach exists between what may be thought of as reserch and practical measures of intervent effectiveness. In these review processes, the present paper provied the two broard measurement issues for future direction of sport measurrement issues for future direction of sport psychology in Korea: 1) development of Korean measurement through the fusion processes of the different cultural constructs, 2) availability of measurement to theory and practice in sport. As the first step in measurement construction, it was emphasized that the construct being measured should be identified through a conceptual analysis and careful observation of the culture based on fusion cultural perspectives. An important measurement objective for sport psychology should be the evaluation of intervention effectiveness.