INTERNAL CONSISTENCY OF THE GROUP ENVIRONMENT QUESTIONNAIRE MODIFIED FOR AN EXERCISE SETTING

The Group Environment Questionnaire-an instrument used to assess cohesiveness in sport teams since 1985-has been modified and used in fitness classes. The purpose of the study was to assess whether the internal consistency values of the modified version are similar to those reported for sport teams. For two samples of participants in exercise classes, the Cronbach alphas for the Attractions to Group Task and Social subtests and for Group Integration Task and Social subtests were .78, .61, .71, and .78 (n = 290) and .77, .62, .71, and .77 (n = 198), respectively. These values are highly similar to those reported for the original version.