Abstract:
Goal: Given the need of scientific community for suitable psychometric tools for determination of
psychological characteristics, this study aims to prepare a shyness questionnaire for university students
of Isfahan province and evaluate the psychometric quality of the questionnaire. Methods: This study
uses descriptive and assessment method. In this work, 500 students from various Universities in
Isfahan province were selected at random and answered the preliminary version of the prepared
shyness questionnaire. Then the reliability of the questionnaire was investigated using Cronbach’s
alpha, even‑odd method, and test‑retest method. Findings: Investigating the psychometric quality of
the questionnaire showed that it has suitable internal consistency. The reliability was calculated to be
0.83 by using Cronbach’s alpha, 0.7 using the even‑odd method, and 0.97 using test‑retest method,
which indicates good reliability. Conclusions: Given the acceptable psychometric quality of the
questionnaire, this 44‑item form can be a suitable tool for investigating shyness among students for
various research purposes.
Machine summary:
Preparation and evaluation of psychometric quality of shyness questionnaire for students of Universities of Isfahan province Address for Correspondence: Miss.
ir ABSTRACT Goal: Given the need of scientific community for suitable psychometric tools for determination of psychological characteristics, this study aims to prepare a shyness questionnaire for university students of Isfahan province and evaluate the psychometric quality of the questionnaire.
In this work, 500 students from various Universities in Isfahan province were selected at random and answered the preliminary version of the prepared shyness questionnaire.
Preparation and evaluation of psychometric quality of shyness questionnaire for students of Universities of Isfahan province.
[20] Rajabi and Abasi in their study investigated the structure of Persian version of RCBSS on 182 selected students from Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz and along with verification of validity and credibility of the scale, showed the three factors of lack of decisiveness and self‑esteem, anxiety and social estrangement, and shyness in dealing with unknown people to be the main factors effecting shyness.
[21] Given the importance of this subject, this study aims to determine the psychometric characteristics of shyness scale using a sample from University students of Isfahan province.
Discussion The goal of this study was to prepare and evaluate the psychometric quality of shyness questionnaire for students of Universities located in Isfahan province.
Among those studies, Rajabi and Abasi evaluated the psychometric quality of the translated RCBSS and Pour Meghdad created a shyness questionnaire and investigated the high school students of Tehran which showed desirable results.