The Development Of The General Knowledge Of Sport Scale

With the purpose to measure general interest toward sport in male Croatian adolescents, the General knowledge of sport (GKS) scale was constructed. The scale consists of 30 questions with the multiple-choice answers; the questions are about the rules of sports, history, events, achievements and athletes, from the world and local sport. The research of metric properties of the scale was done on the sample of 1184 male high school pupils, aged 15 to 20 years, from Istria region of Croatia. The results show that 3 items should be excluded from scale. The remaining 27 questions form adequate measuring instrument, with the acceptable value of Cronbach's alpha coefficient of reliability (0,78). It is concluded that 27-item scale can be useful as a short version of GKS.