Development of a Leisure Experience Battery for Adolescents: Parsimony, Stability, and Validity

Abstract

This study reports the development of a battery of scales measuring selected dimensions of leisure experience of adolescents. Four leisure dimensions were included in the battery: boredom, awareness, anxiety, and challenge. The reliability and validity of these scales were established with a sample of 1,407 adolescents. The goal of the analysis was to produce parsimonious yet internally consistent measures of selected dimensions of the adolescent leisure experience. To accomplish this, the original, longer version of the battery was shortened. Both Cronbach's alpha and factor analyses confirmed the internal consistency reliability of the reduced dimensions. Test-retest reliability was established over a twelve month interval. Correlations with theoretically related measures suggested initial construct validity.

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