ABSTRACT
This chapter is a representation of the quantitative data gleaned from the factor analysis of participant responses to questionnaires and addresses research objective four, which is to use culture-specific knowledge to develop a unique scale that can support the appreciation and application of this research in Singapore. To aid the qualitative interpretations of the researcher and support the social relevance of this research in a culture that values tangible and quantifiable information (see Chapters Four and Five), new scales, unique to the analytical interests of the researcher, were specifically developed to investigate the sociocultural environment of Singapore (see Chapter Two). After adjusting and readjusting the factor models following the exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to help support the validity of the scales by confirming the extent to which the models produced fitted the data of the new samples. It should be noted that the factor analyses were not focused on testing hypotheses or how a set of variables might predict an outcome variable, but rather on supplementing the interpretive analytical interests of the researcher and to address the research objectives. In addition, it was decided that the work on applying factor analysis by Cabrera-Nguyen (2010) and Schmitt (2011) would be used to ensure consistency in the analytical procedures and interpretation of data. To supplement the factor analyses, 2 × 2 between factor analysis of variance (ANOVAs) were conducted to investigate the potential differences that may exist between participants of different gender and level of sport involvement.
