The Psychometric Properties and Factor Structure of the Persian version of ‎Romantic Love Myths Questionnaire

The present study aimed to investigate the psychometric ‎properties of the Persian version of the Romantic Love Myths Questionnaire (RLMQ) developed by Lara and Gómez-Urrutia (2021). The research method is validation and the research population includes all individuals aged 18-24 born and resident in Iran in 2021-2022. 364 individuals‎‏ ‏were ‎selected through the convenience sampling method. Being translated and back-translated, the Persian version of RLMQ ‎was prepared and administered with other scales- The dating Violence questionnaire (Rodríguez-Díaz et al., 2017) and Perceived Relationship ‎Quality Components Short Form (Demir, 2008). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was implemented to investigate the validity of the questionnaire ‎and convergent and divergent validity of the questionnaire were evaluated with other scales. CFA results point out that the ‎Persian version of RLMQ has a two-factor structure (idealization and love–abuse) like the original form. The reliability of ‎the questionnaire was assessed by Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability‏.‏‎ The significant correlation of factors with the ‎used scales pointed to the content validity and divergent validity of the questionnaire. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the ‎entire questionnaire was 0.70. The composite reliability for idealization and love abuse were respectively 0.81 and 0.83. ‎Regarding the fact that the composite reliability was greater than 0.80 and the average variance extracted (AVE) for both ‎factors was above 0.5, the convergent validity of the factors was confirmed. According to the results, the Persian version of ‎RLMQ is a valid questionnaire for use in Iranian populations.‎