Psychometric data concerning the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Direction (PANAS-D) in athletes in Arabic-Tunisian language supporting a 2-factor structure of its short modified version

Sofiane Mnadla; Ali Elloumi; Jamel Hajji; Nicola L Bragazzi

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2017.02.019

Psychometric data concerning the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Direction (PANAS-D) in athletes in Arabic-Tunisian language supporting a 2-factor structure of its short modified version

Data Brief. 2017 Feb 13:11:301-307. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.02.019. eCollection 2017 Apr.

Authors

Sofiane Mnadla¹, Ali Elloumi², Jamel Hajji³, Nicola L Bragazzi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Sport and Physical Education (ISSEP), The Department of Education Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mannouba, Tunisia.
² Department of Arts and Social Sciences, Sfax University, Tunisia; Laboratoire Techniques et Enjeux du Corps, Université Paris Descartes, France.
³ Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Gafsa, Gafsa University, Gafsa, Tunisia.
⁴ School of Public Health, Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Via Antonio Pastore 1, Genoa 16132, Italy.

Abstract

The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Direction (PANAS-D) questionnaire was translated from the French version developed by Nicolas and coworkers into Arabic-Tunisian language and administered to a sample of 519 athletes (mean age 19.43±3.78 years; 230 male, 229 female; 75 competing at international level, 287 at national level, 130 at regional level, and 27 at local level). A semi-confirmatory factor analysis was carried out in order to shed light on the factor structure of the questionnaire. Different models were tested, including the 1-factor, the 2-factor and the 3-factor structure models, and compared in terms of fitting indexes. Data support a 2-factor solution of the modified short version of the PANAS-D questionnaire.

Keywords: Semi-confirmatory factor analysis; Sport and exercise psychology.