a valid questionnaire is a precursor to a sound measurement process. this study examined the psychometric properties of the persian version of the revised competitive state anxiety inventory – 2 (csai-2r). a total of 131 female taekwondo athletes (mean age =12.37 ± 2.52) from damghan completed csai-2r at competition venues. confirmatory factor analysis was used to analyze the structure of csai-...

background: parenting style is associated with children's health-related behaviors. one of the popularity and applicability assessment tools is parenting style and dimensions questionnaire (psdq) that the lack of iranian version can be seen.this study was conducted to determine the validity and reliability of iranian version of psdq.materials and methods: this study was done with randomize...

Forgiveness is an issue that recently has received increasing attention in the psychological literature, yet little empirical research has been conducted on this topic. This article presents initial support and validation of an inventory based upon Gordon and Baucom’s (1998) three-stage synthesized model of forgiveness in marital relationships. This model places forgiveness in the framework of ...

The purpose of the research is to develop a valid and reliable perception scale that can measure math teachers (198) science (120) towards private lesson. In validity studies, exploratory factor analysis was made with SPSS 25.0 package program after confirmatory Lisrel 8.71 software. To scale; 1. Creation Item Pool 2. Obtaining Expert Opinion, 3. Pre-Trial Form 4. Factor Analysis 5. Confirmator...

objective: this study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties and the factor structure of the behavior problems inventory (bpi-01) among students with intellectual disabilities in iran. methods: the persian version of bpi-01 was administered to the care staff of iranian children and adolescents (n=591) who had been detected as suffering from intellectual disabilities. iranian children and...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to develop a questionnaire assessing fears and beliefs of patients with knee OA. DESIGN We sent a detailed document reporting on a qualitative analysis of interviews of patients with knee OA to experts, and a Delphi procedure was adopted for item generation. Then, 80 physicians recruited 566 patients with knee OA to test the provisional questionnaire. Items were reduced acc...

This study examines the extent to which surveyed outcomes of IT outsourcing supported several commonly-argued propositions. Following confirmatory factor analysis, eight measures of success were used: access to skilled staff, technology benefits, economies of scale, cost reductions, strategic benefits, technical service quality, capacity to concentrate on core business, and overall satisfaction...

PURPOSE This study aims to demonstrate whether the functionalities between the widely used questionnaire in other countries and the Korean-translated version show similarity. Also, it intends to verify their reliability and validity. METHODS The original questionnaire was first developed by professor Noe at the University of Minnesota with 29 items named as "mentoring functions" to identify t...

Mammography screening has been demonstrated to decrease mortality from breast cancer. Although adherence rates have increased, there is still a need to increase annual screening. Self-efficacy is a construct that has been found useful in predicting behaviors. Measurement of self-efficacy needs to be specific to the behavior and to have good validity and reliability. The purpose of this study is...