This study focused on 105 elder women over 65 was to develop perception assessment tools for an test of functional fitness assessment after comparing with fitness in daily life. For the validity of this tools, Senior Fitness Test(SFT) was used, which ...
This study focused on 105 elder women over 65 was to develop perception assessment tools for an test of functional fitness assessment after comparing with fitness in daily life. For the validity of this tools, Senior Fitness Test(SFT) was used, which investigated it through correlation between two tests.
The perceptual tools consisted of used ones pre-existing through document researches. As the first preliminary, it was composed of 32 questions regarding 4 fitness factors(cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and balance & agility). Then some wrong questions were modified according to an expert's opinions based on the theoretical rationale.
Thus, it was comprised of 26 questions about 6 fitness factors like upper-body muscle strength, leg muscle strength, cardiovascular endurance, upper-body flexibility, trunk forward flexibility, and balance & agility.
For data process, SPSS/Win ver. 12.0 was used, which investigated reliability and validity for the development of the questions. Also, content validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability estimate, and confirmatory factor analysis were implemented. Besides, correlation analysis was applied in order to find out the relation between perceptual tools for an estimation of functional fitness developed and SFT.
First, there was no question of which average was under 0.8 after 6 experts doing CVI about the 26 questions.
Second, the high reliability, a=0.962, of the 26 questions was verified as a result of running Cronbach's alpha so as to investigate internal consistency of them.
Third, 6 fitness factors were set and examined through confirmatory factor analysis for construct validity.
Fourth, every question showed high correlation when Pearson's correlation analysis was used to investigate item reliability after test-retest reliability estimate.
Fifth, Pearson's correlation analysis for the relation between perceptual tools for an assessment of functional fitness and SFT also showed the significant correlation, which meant there was meaningful correlation as an aspect of criterion, SFT.
Therefore, it was appropriate that perceptual tools for an assessment of functional fitness developed in this study were useful as perceptual tools because of their high validity and reliability.