Prins, B. (Berdien) (2021) Validity of the Dutch Acute Recovery and Stress Scale and the Short Recovery and Stress Scale. thesis, Sport Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
The Acute Recovery and Stress Scale (ARSS) and the Short Recovery and Stress Scale (SRSS) are well established monitoring tools in German and English-speaking countries. Currently, no Dutch translation of these questionnaires exists. Therefore, the goal of this study was to determine the construct and convergent validity of the Dutch translation of the ARSS and SRSS. The second aim was to investigate the relation between preceding training load and recovery, and the results of the ARSS and SRSS. To achieve this, we translated the ARSS and SRSS with a parallel back-translation procedure after which we determined construct validity with the intercorrelations between the ARSS and SRSS. Convergent validity was determined through hypothesis-conforming correlations with the Dutch version of the Recovery-Stress Questionnaire (RESTQ-Sport) for athletes. And we determined the relations with relevant measures such as session Rating of Perceived Exertion (sRPE) and Total Quality of Recovery (TQR). Of the 450 athletes that we contacted, 82 athletes (47 males, 21.1 ± 6.5 years) responded. Construct validity for the ARSS was rs = .31 – .77 and for the SRSS rs = .28 - .63, which supports theoretical congruency as well as independent usage of both questionnaires. Also, the correlation between the ARSS and SRSS was determined using Spearman correlations (rs = .60 - .77). Stress scales from ARSS and SRSS related to stress scales from the RESTQ-Sport. The same pattern was found for recovery scales. No significant relations were found between RPE and ARSS, but significant relations existed between TQR (rs = .17 - .79) and ARSS. The ARSS and SRSS showed sufficient construct validity and sufficient convergent validity. The ARSS and SRSS can be used to measure current stress and recovery in research and practice in Dutch-speaking regions. Longitudinal studies with repeated measures are needed to determine responsiveness of these questionnaires. Keywords: monitoring, training, load, recovery, self-report measures, physical, mental
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Brink, M. and Brauers, J. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 13 May 2022 14:22 |
| Last Modified: | 13 May 2022 14:22 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3313 |
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