The results reported here do not support the original factor structure and
scale construction put forward by the instrument developers, Barbuto and
Scholl (1998). As can be seen in Table 1, an examination of the factor
structure using the dataset failed to identify five factors related to the five
motivational concepts contained in Leonard et al.’s (1999) meta-theory of
motivation. An attempt to bring meaning to the five factors identified in
Table 1 presents difficulties.