خلاصة:
Purpose: The present study investigated the psychometric properties
of a Persian version self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory in the
male and female teachers. Materials & Methods: This study was of a
validation type. The participants were 444 teachers selected through
a multistage-cluster random sampling among the teachers in high
school second period in the city of Bojnord of the 2015-16 years. The
three scales administrated in this study were: self- reassurance/ selfcriticism
Inventory, self-efficacy Scale and happiness Inventory. A
Cronbach’s and test-retest reliability was calculated to examine the
reliability of the self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory and to
check the validity of the method convergent validity, divergent validity
and confirmatory factor analysis was used. Findings: The calculated
α for the inventory was for self-criticism 0.69 and for and selfreassurance
0.77. Neutralizing dimensions respectively self-criticism
and for and self- reassurance examined through correlating it to the
self-efficacy scale and happiness Inventory given signification. Using
factor exploratory analysis confirmed the two-factor structure.
Discussion: The Persian version of the self- reassurance/ self-criticism
Inventory seems satisfactory for measuring self- reassurance/ selfcriticism
symptoms in teacher's samples. Future research is, however,
needed to confirm these data in a sample of OCD teacher's.
Purpose: The present study investigated the psychometric properties of a Persian version self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory in the male and female teachers. Materials & Methods: This study was of a validation type. The participants were 444 teachers selected through a multistage-cluster random sampling among the teachers in high school second period in the city of Bojnord of the 2015-16 years. The three scales administrated in this study were: self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory, self-efficacy Scale and happiness Inventory. A Cronbach’s and test-retest reliability was calculated to examine the reliability of the self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory and to check the validity of the method convergent validity, divergent validity and confirmatory factor analysis was used. Findings: The calculated α for the inventory was for self-criticism 0.69 and for and self- reassurance 0.77. Neutralizing dimensions respectively self-criticism and for and self- reassurance examined through correlating it to the self-efficacy scale and happiness Inventory given signification. Using factor exploratory analysis confirmed the two-factor structure. Discussion: The Persian version of the self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory seems satisfactory for measuring self- reassurance/ self-criticism symptoms in teacherchr('39')s samples. Future research is, however, needed to confirm these data in a sample of OCD teacherchr('39')s.
ملخص الجهاز:
A confirmatory factor analysis and validation of the forms of self-criticism/reassurance scale among teachers Shahnaz Marzi1, Aboutaleb Seadatee Shamir2* 1.
Assistant professor of educational psychology, Islamic Azad University, science and research branch, Tehran, Iran / / Article history: Received date: 28 September, 2016 Review date: 13 October 2016 Accepted date:29 November 2016 Printed on line: 15 July, 2017 Keywords: self-criticism, self- reassurance, Self- efficacy Abstract Purpose: The present study investigated the psychometric properties of a Persian version self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory in the male and female teachers.
A Cronbach’s and test-retest reliability was calculated to examine the reliability of the self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory and to check the validity of the method convergent validity, divergent validity and confirmatory factor analysis was used.
A confirmatory factor analysis and validation of the forms of self-criticism/reassurance scale among teachers.
Fitness indexes of the final form of the questionnaire self-criticism / confidence scale was investigated.
Two-factor model fit indexes of self-criticism / self-confidence scale (n=444).
The study results showed that the scores of self-criticism / self -reassurance scale have appropriate exploratory and confirmatory factor structure .
With achieving these findings, the divergent validity of self-criticism / self -reassurance scale is confirmed because self-efficacy and happiness was proposed as positive aspects of mental health and psychological well-being.
This finding is in line with the main research findings and other studies that they have shown that self-criticism / self -reassurance scale has been formed from two factors (Gilbert et al.