The purpose of the current study was to develop a valid and reliable measure of team representation, which refers to the extent to which the residents of a community perceive a local sports team to be representative of the community. Through our literature review, focus groups, and surveys, we identified four key dimensions that serve as formative indicators of team representation (i.e., normative, descriptive, symbolic, and substantive representation) and developed scale items measuring those dimensions. The results of exploratory factor analysis and partial least squares structural equation modeling confirmed the validity of our scale items and reflective–formative measurement model. As the first study to develop and validate scale items measuring specific dimensions of team representation, the current research provides significant contributions to the literature. Our scale items also enable sports teams to assess their representative status in their local communities and develop effective strategies to improve their representation.

本研究的目的是制定一种有效且可靠的团队代表性衡量标准，即社区居民认为当地运动队代表社区的程度。通过文献综述、焦点小组和调查，我们确定了四个关键维度，作为团队代表性的形成性指标（即规范性、描述性、象征性和实质性代表性），并开发了衡量这些维度的量表项目。探索性因素分析和偏最小二乘结构方程模型的结果证实了我们的量表项目和反思形成测量模型的有效性。作为第一项开发和验证衡量团队代表性特定维度的量表项目的研究，当前的研究对文献做出了重大贡献。我们的规模项目还使运动队能够评估他们在当地社区的代表地位，并制定有效的策略来提高他们的代表性。