Questionnaire sur l'Ambiance du Groupe: A French-Language Instrument for Measuring Group Cohesion

26 pagesInternational audienceThe present report provides a summary of five studies undertaken to develop a French-language instrument to assess cohesiveness in sport teams--the "Questionnaire sur l'Ambiance du Groupe" (QAG). For the initial version of the instrument, the Group Environment Questionnaire (Carron, Widmeyer, & Brawley, 1985) was translated into French using the protocol outlined by Vallerand (1989). However, psychometric analyses undertaken in Studies 1, 2 and 3 failed to yield acceptable evidence of construct validity. Items were then revised in an attempt to make them more suitable for the French culture. Subsequent analyses in Study 4 provided support for the construct validity, and reliability (internal consistency and interscale equivalence) of the QAG. In Study 5, predictive validity was demonstrated. The QAG has been found to possess satisfactory psychometric properties as a measure of cohesion in sport teams