Scale development: perceived barriers to public use of school recreational facilities. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • OBJECTIVES: To test an original scale assessing perceived barriers among school administrators to allowing community use of school recreational facilities outside of regular school hours. METHODS: Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). RESULTS: Using EFA and CFA, we found that a model including factors of legal/security, resources, and social support demonstrated the best relative fit for our data. CONCLUSIONS: The Perceived Barriers to Community Use (PBCU) Scale is psychometrically sound and provides a framework to guide the design of future research and discussion of perceived barriers that school administrators have about opening their school recreational facilities outside of regular school hours.

published proceedings

  • Am J Health Behav

author list (cited authors)

  • Spengler, J. O., Ko, Y. J., & Connaughton, D. P.

citation count

  • 9

complete list of authors

  • Spengler, John O||Ko, Yong Jae||Connaughton, Daniel P

publication date

  • March 2012