نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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1 کارشناسی ارشد روانشناسی بالینی، گروه روانشناسی بالینی و سلامت، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران.
2 استاد روانشناسی، گروه روانشناسی بالینی و سلامت، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران.
3 استادیار روانشناسی، گروه روانشناسی اجتماعی و فرهنگی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران.
4 استادیار روانشناسی، گروه روانشناسی تربیتی تحولی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران.
5 دانشیار روانشناسی، گروه روانشناسی بالینی، تربیتی و سلامت، دانشکده علوم مغز، کالج دانشگاهی لندن، انگلستان.
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Aim: The purpose of this research was to investigate factor structure, validity, and reliability of the Epistemic Trust, Mistrust, and Credulity Questionnaire (ETMCQ) in Iranian Society.
Method: The research method was in terms of purpose, applied and the data collection method was descriptive correlational. The statistical population included all Iranian females and males above 18 years old in the year 2022. After translating and obtaining the face validity and the content validity of the questionnaire by experts, 690 adults were selected using convenience sampling and answered the Persian version of the ETMCQ. The factor validity of the ETMCQ, by confirmatory and exploratory analysis methods, and internal consistency by Cronbach's alpha were obtained. Also, to investigate the convergent and divergent validity, The Experiences in Close Relationships questionnaire (ECR), The Mentalization Scale (MentS), The Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO), and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) were used.
Results: The results showed that the three-factor structure of the questionnaire in the Iranian sample had a good fit with the data. Internal consistency for the epistemic trust, epistemic mistrust, and epistemic credulity was 0/66, 0/56, and 0/79, respectively. Also, the construct validity, the convergent validity, and the divergent validity of the instrument were confirmed.
Conclusion: The findings of the current research confirmed the psychometric characteristics of the Epistemic Trust, Mistrust, and Credulity Questionnaire. Therefore, this questionnaire can be considered a suitable instrument for measuring the epistemic stances of adults in various research fields.
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