The study of the Reliability and Validity of Personal Responsibility Scale for Adolescents

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Personal Responsibility Scale for Adolescents (Mergler & Shield, 2016). The statistical population consisted of all first and second year high school students in Firoozabad city who were studying in the year 1396-97. Participants were 300 high school students (111 girls and 189 boys) who were selected by cluster random sampling. This scale was preliminary study after the Persian translation and confirmation of the validity of the translation. The results of exploratory factor analysis indicated that there were two distinct factors of cognitive control / responsiveness and behavioral / emotional control which together explained 59.28% of the total variance. Model fit indices using confirmatory factor analysis for chi-square to freedom ratio of 1.67, comparative fit of 0.98, normalized fit of 0.95 and root mean square error of estimation error of 0.04 indicate fit. The model with the data was desirable. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for cognitive / responsive control was 0.93 and for behavioral / emotional control was 0.70. In conclusion, this tool seems to have two factors to measure the personal responsibility of first- and second-grade students in adolescence.