The Validity and Reliability Study of The Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale for Athlete Students in Turkish

In this study, it is aimed to adapt the ‘Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale developed by Podsakoff et al.(1997) to the Turkish language and culture. The study participants are athlete students who have received education at universities in different cities of Turkey (Alanya, Antalya, Eskişehir, Kütahya, Adiyaman, and Kilis) during the 2020-2021 academic year and who play football, volleyball, basketball, and handball teams. 60 athlete students participated in the pilot scheme, 226 athlete students participated in the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and 42 athlete students participated in the pre-test post-test reliability analysis. The data were collected from the participants in the online environment from April-May 2021. At the first stage of the adaptation process, the linguistic equivalence of the scale was ensured and expert opinion was obtained. In the next stage, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to discover the scale structure. The structure resulting from the EFA was tested by Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). In addition, internal consistency analysis, total item correlation analysis, test-retest analyses, and reliability tests were performed. It can be said that the “Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale” is a valid and reliable measurement tool for the Turkish language and culture with 10 items and a 2-factor structure that emerged as a result of validity and reliability analyses.