Quality of life has become firmly established as an important concept for an individual's life. The study introduces a concept of quality of life presented by Canadian Centre for Health Promotion, Quality of Life Research Unit of University of Toronto that developed a quality of life profile for adult population titled Quality of Life Profile – Adult Version (Brown, I., Renwick, R. & Nagler, M., 1996). The objective of this study is to provide a cross-cultural transfer and validation of this profile in the Czech cultural environment. The instrument was validated for a sample of 307 students of master degree in Physical Education and Sport. The questionnaire including nine key areas with the total number of 54 items was translated into the Czech language using a cross-cultural, back-translation technique. Following all steps recommended by the cross-cultural transfer method, the content and concurrent validity of the instrument was verified, producing a pilot version to be administered. In the pilot study, the specific reliability of items was verified using the time stability method. Internal consistency of each of the nine key areas was verified through Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's omega. The construct validity and structural theory was tested using the structural equation modeling method (Lisrel).The study presents the results achieved in each phase of the instrument validation, and brings modifications of the quality of life model resulting from the structural theory testing.

Charles University Prague Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Department of Foregn Languages

Profil kvality života: posouzení validity a reliability na základě metody mezikulturního převodu

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