investigating of internal consistency and confirmatory factor analysis of prospective and retrospective memory in an iranian sample

objectives: the prospective and retrospective memory questionnaire (prmq) developed by smith (2000) and consists of a series of questions about memory weakness that can be encountered anyone in everyday life. the self-reported questionnaire has 16 items that assessing of prospective and retrospective memory problems in everyday life and the aim of the present research was to examine the investigating of reliability and confirmatory factor analysis in sample of iranian students. method: the method of this study was standardization. the questionnaire translated into persian, and its final form was carried out on 500 subjects who were selected by available sampling among students of tehran university. to determine the reliability and validity of questionnaire, cronbach's alpha test and confirmatory factor analysis were used. results: the range of cronbach’s alpha for prmq (subscales prospective and retrospective memory) was from 0.64 through 0.73, and the cronbach’s alpha for total prmq was 0.80. confirmatory factor analysis by the maximum likelihood values showed that the eigen value of four factors was considered that generally explained 28.29% of the total variance. conclusion: the prospective and retrospective memory questionnairehas satisfactory reliability and validity in the sample of iranian students.