TY - JOUR ID - 97253 TI - The construction, reliability and validation of a questionnaire for assessing the patterns and premarital injuries JO - Applied Psychology JA - APSY LA - en SN - 2008-4331 AU - Rostami, Mehdi AU - Navabinejad, Shokoh AU - Farzad, Vali ollah AD - PhD. Student in Counseling, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran AD - Professor of Psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran AD - Associate Professor of P Psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 1398 PY - 1398 VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 453 EP - 473 KW - patterns KW - injures KW - premarriage KW - Reliability KW - Validation DO - 10.29252/apsy.13.3.453 N2 - Aim: Purpose of the study was construction, questionnaire reliability and validation for measurement of patterns and premarital injuries. Method: The research method was the testing. The statistical population was all of the engaged couples from 26 Iran provinces in 2018. Sample were selected through purposive sampling and according to Brown (2006), 550 peopleincluding 357 girls and 193 boys who were about to get married haveelectronically completed the questionnaire of Evaluation of PremaritalPatterns and Injuries of Rostami, Navabinejad & Farzad 2018. After deleting38 unclear questionnaires, 521 people were analyzed by using the contentvalidity index and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Results:Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis indicated that 79 items wereclassified into 5 factors; the first factor was the inefficient relationshippatterns with the explained variance value of 10.50; the second factor was theinefficient relationship management patterns with the explained variancevalue of 6.84; the third factor was the value system of the couples with theexplained variance value of 6.49; the fourth factor was the schematicmentality with the explained variance value of 6.43, and the fifth factor wasthe destructive effects of the main family with the explained variance valueof 5.19, which represented 35.47% of the total variance of the questionnaire.Except χ2 index that was equal to 1200.65, the fitting indicators of theconfirmatory factor analysis were also significant at the level of 0.001. TheCronbach's alpha coefficients were respectively as follows: 0.92 for theinefficient relationship patterns, 0.90 for the inefficient relationshipmanagement patterns, 0.91 for the value system of the couples, 0.89 for theschematics mentality, and 0.87 for the destructive effects of the main family,and these values for retest process with a 45-day-interval respectively were;0.86, 0.87, 0.91, 0.85 and 0.90. Conclusion: The designed questionnaire isvalid and reliable. It can be used to diagnose premarital patterns and injuriesin order to identify the relationship patterns, the value system of the couplesand the schematic mentality of each couple. UR - https://apsy.sbu.ac.ir/article_97253.html L1 - https://apsy.sbu.ac.ir/article_97253_6142e532b8e0d9bd6773d73347211f92.pdf ER -