mojtaba beyrami; Parvin Kadivar; mehdi arabzadeh
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The aim of this study was to identify the psychometric properties or indicators of the Mental Toughness Scale for Adolescents by McGowan et al. (2016) and examine its relationship with academic procrastination, generalized anxiety, and math anxiety using path analysis. The research sample consisted of ...
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The aim of this study was to identify the psychometric properties or indicators of the Mental Toughness Scale for Adolescents by McGowan et al. (2016) and examine its relationship with academic procrastination, generalized anxiety, and math anxiety using path analysis. The research sample consisted of 455 high school students in Zanjan city, Iran, who were selected using cluster sampling. Participants completed the relevant scales through in-person administration. Data analysis was conducted in two phases and employing factor analysis and path analysis statistical methods. In the first phase, the psychometric properties of the Mental Toughness Scale were examined. The results revealed that a six-factor solution, in line with the proposed six dimensions of Mental Toughness Scale (challenge, commitment, control over life and emotions, and self-confidence in abilities and interpersonal relationships), provided the best fit to the competing models. Additionally, the overall internal consistency of the scale was satisfactory, with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.81. In the second phase, the direct and indirect effects of Mental Toughness on generalized anxiety, math anxiety, and academic procrastination were examined using path analysis. The findings indicated that Mental Toughness has a direct impact on generalized anxiety, math anxiety, and academic procrastination. Moreover, Mental Toughness has an indirect effect on academic procrastination and math anxiety through the mediating role of generalized anxiety. The implications of the study's findings for schools and educational environments, as well as suggestions for future research, were discussed.
akram azimi; یزدخواستی yazdkhasti; amrollah ebrahimi; mohammadreza maracy
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Nowadays, flexibility is the subject of special attention in the field of mental health and the scope of related research is increasing every day. The purpose of the present study was to construct and investigate the psychometric properties and factor structure of the adolescents' psychological flexibility ...
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Nowadays, flexibility is the subject of special attention in the field of mental health and the scope of related research is increasing every day. The purpose of the present study was to construct and investigate the psychometric properties and factor structure of the adolescents' psychological flexibility scale. Four-hundred-sixty students were selected from six schools from the eighth and ninth grades (with emphasis on the ninth grade) by the multistage sampling method from six schools in Isfahan city. The instruments were Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). In factor analysis, the three factors of commitment, lack of perfectionism, and openness to experience were effective in forming themental flexibility variable. The obtained results showed that the present scale is a tool that has appropriate reliability (stability, internal consistency) and validity for measuring psychological flexibility. The results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in this study confirmed the appropriate construct validity of this scale.
Noor Ali Farokhi
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Back ground: Nowadays use of teams and work groups to perform different tasks is increasing Social loafing point to the important thing that people may show less conscious effort in group than when working individually . Aim: The present study aimed to Construction and Standardization of adolescents ...
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Back ground: Nowadays use of teams and work groups to perform different tasks is increasing Social loafing point to the important thing that people may show less conscious effort in group than when working individually . Aim: The present study aimed to Construction and Standardization of adolescents social loafing questionnaire Method: This research is a descriptive study in which 27 high school students of Kermanshah city (first and second secondary) participated A 34-item questionnaire, developed based on research literature and was completed by students for data collection. To determine the number of factor s of questionnaire, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis by LISREL 8.7 and SPSS 16.0 software were used. Also awareness function of questions calculated by using software MULTI-LOG. Results: The research showed that the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of questionnaire that indicates the inner reliability and parallelism is high.( α =0.923) and validity through exploratory factor analysis by varimax's method produced four factors that are: Job characteristics, individual perception, group characteristics, inferiority and negative perceptions. Also by using of first and second order confirmatory factor analysis these four factors examined and results showed that validity of questionnaire is acceptable. Discussion and conclusions: Research findings indicate that adolescents social loafing questionnaire have acceptable psychometric characteristics. and it can be use as valid and reliable tool for research in Sociology and psychologically
