The movement imagery questionnaire-3: reliability and validity study on turkish sample

The aim of the present study was to test the reliability and validity of the Movement Imagery Questionnaire-3 (MIQ-3) (Williams et al., 2012) among a Turkish sample. The study was conducted with 136 (104 women, 32 men) university students. Participants are in the 19-29 age range (Mage = 20.97, SD = 1.67). 81 of the participants (59.6%) reported that they were licenced athlete before. The MIQ-3 (Williams et al., 2012), consists of 12 items and three subscales (internal-visual imagery, external-visual imagery, kinesthetic imagery), was developed to assess the imagery ability of individuals towards certain basic movements. The participants were asked to rate the level of ease/difficulty of the imagery task of these movements on a 7-point Likert-type scale (1 = very hard to see/feel; 7 = very easy to see/feel). The results showed that the goodness of fit indices was satisfactory, (χ2 (51) = 87.88, p