| Ar-BMZI | Arabic Bernese Motive and Goal Inventory |
| AUC | Area Under the Curve |
| BMZI | Bernese Motive and Goal Inventory |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| CFA | Confirmatory Factor Analysis |
| EFA | Exploratory Factor Analysis |
| ICC | Intraclass Correlation Coefficient |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board |
| KMO | Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (Measure of Sampling Adequacy) |
| MCS | Mental Component Summary (SF-12) |
| PCS | Physical Component Summary (SF-12) |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| ROC | Receiver Operating Characteristic |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SDT | Self-Determination Theory |
| SF-12 | 12-Item Short Form Health Survey |
| SMS | Sport Motivation Scale |
| SMS-28 | Sport Motivation Scale, 28-item version |
| ω (Omega) | McDonald’s Omega Reliability Coefficient |
| α (Alpha) | Cronbach’s Alpha Reliability Coefficient |
| χ2 | Chi-square Statistic |