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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Movement Imagery Questionnaire-3 (MIQ-3). At the first stage, MIQ-3 was translated into Persian according to the standard method. At the second stage, the factorial structure of the questionnaire was tested, using confirmatory factor analysis. A number of 164 male and 155 female athletes of different competitive levels participated at this stage; also the concurrent validity of MIQ-3 was evaluated, using Persian version of the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire VMIQ-2 (61 males and 43 females). At the third stage, the reliability of MIQ-3 was calculated by two methods, test-retest and internal consistency. In this stage, 53 male and 42 female athletes with a time interval of 14 to 30 day participated. The scale demonstrated good content and good factorial validity as well as good concurrent validity and internal consistency, it can be concluded that the Persian version of MIQ-3 has proper validity and reliability.
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