Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of Psychology, azarbaijan shahid madani university, Tabriz, Iran
2 PhD in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Education of Exceptional children, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The current study was conducted to investigate psychometric properties of the executive skills questionnaire-revised (ESQ-R) in Iran. We carried out a cross-sectional study following linguistic validation and pilot investigation. The forward-backward translation method was used to translate the questionnaire from English into Persian Prior to pilot testing. The participants consisted of 1337 male and female students studying in Iranian universities. For data analysis, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used. Additionally, internal consistency analyzed by test-retest and Cronbach’s alpha (Reliability). The coefficient alpha estimates of reliability were for the first factor (planning) 0.84, the second factor (time management) 0.78, the third factor (emotion regulation) 0.76, the fourth factor (organization) was 0.72 and the fifth factor (behavior regulation) was 0.70. The results of confirmatory factor analysis were in an acceptable range for the questionnaire. The findings demonstrated that ESQ-R has good psychometric properties to measure executive skills among Iranian students. Therefore, the questioner can be used in future in health or educational settings.
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