خلاصة:
This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Committed Action Questionnaire (CAQ-8) in a non-clinical sample. The study evaluated the factor analyses, reliability, and validity of the CAQ-8 in an Iranian sample.
Methods: The psychometric properties of the CAQ-8 were investigated in a Persian student (n=180), through convenient sampling for data gathering. Participants filled out a battery of questionnaires, including CAQ-8, medical outcomes study questionnaire 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II), and Depression, Anxiety, And Stress Scale (DASS-21). Confirmatory factor analyses and goodness of fit indexes were used to examine the reliability and validity of the Persian version of the CAQ-8.
Results: The Persian version of the CAQ-8 revealed satisfactory levels of internal consistency (α=0.77), and significant association with various indexes of theoretically-related instruments such as DASS-21, SF-36, and AAQ-II. Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that the Persian version of the CAQ-8 yielded a 7-item questionnaire by the two-factor model.
Conclusion: The Persian version of CAQ appears to be a valid, reliable, and adequate measure for the assessment of the concept of committed action in the Iranian sample.
ملخص الجهاز:
Research Paper: Psychometric Properties of the Committed Action Questionnaire, the Persian Version Maryam Mazloom1* /, Shahram Mohammadkhani1 /, Mehdi Akbari1 /, Jafar Hasani1 / 1.
1 Article info: Received: 20 Oct 2019 Accepted: 14 Feb 2020 Available Online: 01 Apr 2020 Keywords: Committed action, Validity, Reliability, Psychometrics, Confirmatory factor analyses ABSTRACT Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Committed Action Questionnaire (CAQ-8) in a non-clinical sample.
Participants filled out a battery of questionnaires, including CAQ-8, medical outcomes study questionnaire 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II), and Depression, Anxiety, And Stress Scale (DASS-21).
Conclusion: The Persian version of CAQ appears to be a valid, reliable, and adequate measure for the assessment of the concept of committed action in the Iranian sample.
The Persian version of CAQ appears valid, reliable, and adequate as a measure for the specific assessment of the concept of committed action in the Iranian sample.
Recently we are observing the increasing interest in the utilization of CAQ in different languages, for example, psychometric evaluation of the Dutch version of CAQ-8 in a nonclinical sample (kraiss, 2014), validation of the Committed Action Questionnaire (CAQ-8 and CAQ-18) in a Swedish sample with chronic pain (Akerblom, Per-rin, Fischer, & McCracken, 2016), preliminary analysis of Chinese version of QAC (Wong, McCracken, Wong, Chen, Chow, & Fielding, 2016) and also analyzing the 154 Mazloom, M.
Statistical analysis To test the reliability, corrected item-total correlations and Cronbach α were used to examine the internal con-sistency of the Persian version of CAQ-8.