Farhad Tanhaye Reshvanloo; Hadi Samadieh; Marziyeh Mashayekhi; Fateme Farzane; Batool Goli; , Aliasghar Shahabifar
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The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS; Diener et al., 1985) has been a standard measure for over thirty years. However, the concept of life satisfaction has evolved during this period. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale (RLSS) among university ...
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The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS; Diener et al., 1985) has been a standard measure for over thirty years. However, the concept of life satisfaction has evolved during this period. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale (RLSS) among university students. Utilizing a convenience sampling method within a validation design, 210 students from private institutions in Mashhad were recruited. The participants completed the RLSS (Margolis et al., 2019), SWLS (Diener et al., 1985), a short form of the Psychological Well-Being Scale (Reif, 1989), and the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (Kessler et al., 2002). The study examined content validity, gender confirmatory invariance, as well as convergent and divergent validity, alongside internal consistency and reliability. The Content Validity Ratio (CVR) for the entire scale was 0.87, and the Content Validity Index (CVI) was 0.97. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.88, and the Spearman-Brown split-half reliability coefficient also stood at 0.88. Confirmatory factor analysis yielded positive results across the entire sample, inclusive of both genders, indicating factorial invariance by gender. Both convergent and divergent validity were confirmed (P
Balal Izanloo; Manouchehr Rezaee; Naser Abbasi
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Perceived partner responsiveness (PPR) is a construct that can help evaluate intimacy in couple therapy. However, research on PPR has been hampered by the lack of a standardized measurement in this field. The purpose of the present study was to translate and examine the factor structure, invariance, ...
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Perceived partner responsiveness (PPR) is a construct that can help evaluate intimacy in couple therapy. However, research on PPR has been hampered by the lack of a standardized measurement in this field. The purpose of the present study was to translate and examine the factor structure, invariance, validity and internal consistency of the Perceived Responsiveness and Insensitivity (PRI) scale among Iranian samples. The statistical population of the present study was the married teachers of Zanjan province in 2021-2022, and 429 teachers in total participated in this research through judgmental convenience sampling. Descriptive statistics and confirmatory factor analysis, graded response model, parallel analysis, exploratory graph analysis and bootstrap analysis were used for data analysis. The findings demonstrated that the factor structure of PRI in Iranian society is similar to the study of Crasta et al. (2021); that is, PRI consisted of two sub-scales. The fit indices of the scale and factor load of the items were optimal both by gender and in the whole sample. The findings related to the invariance of the scale in different models also indicated that the meaning of the items is the same for men and women. Analyzes based on Item-Response theory showed that the items derived for the PRI short form in this study, which should indicate the most information, were inconsistent with the short form derived from Crasta et al.'s (2021) study. Alpha statistic, composite reliability, AVE index and diagnostic validity of PRI scale were also optimum. The findings related to convergent and divergent validity also indicated the significance association of PRI with other variables. In general, the PRI scale showed optimized psychometric properties, which indicated its applicability in the Iranian society and its consistency with the cultural norms of the country. However, in the present study, there was a possibility of weak diagnostic validity of the two constructs in this scale, especially for the group of women, which should be investigated in future studies with a larger sample size.
Sahar Pahlavanneshan; Omid Shokri
Volume 5, Issue 16 , July 2014, , Pages 194-216
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چکیده انگلیسی Abstract The main purpose of this study was to examine the metric equivalence the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SASA, Puklek, 1997) across gender and age in a sample of adolescents. 500 adolescents for 12 to 18 years old (276 female and 224 male) completed the Social ...
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چکیده انگلیسی Abstract The main purpose of this study was to examine the metric equivalence the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SASA, Puklek, 1997) across gender and age in a sample of adolescents. 500 adolescents for 12 to 18 years old (276 female and 224 male) completed the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine the factorial invariance of SASA across sex and age groups. The results of single-group confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the two-factor model of SASA consisted of apprehension and fear of negative evaluation and tension and inhibition in social contact in across sex and age groups good fit to the data. The results of multigroup confirmatory factor analysis indicated cross-group invariance of form, factor loadings, and factor variances and covariances of the SASA across sex and age groups. These findings emphasizing the psychometric equivalence of SASA indicate that factorial validity of SASA is same across sex and age groups. Therefore, these findings indicate that sex and age groups are qualitatively same in dimensional model of expression of cognitive and behavioral forms of social anxiety.
