Building and validating the test (measurement) scale of deviance of adolescent girls

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• shiva pour ghazi ¹
• ali asghar abbasi asfajir ²
• ali rahmani firouzah ³

¹ Ph. D. Student in Sociology, Social Issues, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran

² Associate Professor in sociology department, Babol branch, Islamic azad university, Babol, Iran

³ Associate Professor of sociology in Azad university of Babol Branch

10.30495/jzvj.2022.27072.3477

Abstract

Purpose: Since adolescent girls are the main potentials and assets of any country, their deviance as one of the important challenges in the field of family will have a direct impact on the future of the country. The aim of this study is to build and validate the scale of deviance of adolescent girls.
Method:The statistical society includes a number of the adolescent girls in firozkoh, and the statistical sample was chosen, on the basis of cochran formula, 200 people. For preparing the research tools, after confirming the content validity of the items, and interviewing with the scope of sociology of the social harms scope and reviewing the social issues, the intended questionnaire, was prepared after ralidating the content validation of the items, to remove the ambiguity and recognize the possible problems of the test, some people were requested to answer the questionnaire and define the unclear phrases and words. Following for implementation this test, the form of some items, was changed, but not of them was deleted. Finding:For analyzing the investigation data, the exploratory factor analysis test with the software spss 24 and confirmatory factor analysis of the second stage with the software amos 24 was used. The reliability of the questionnaire, was calculated using cronbach Alpha method. The findings showed that the built test measures seven dimensions.
Conclusion: Considering the amount of earned validity the questionnaire of deviance of adolescent girls, is a suitable tool to for the fear of the crime in the women.

Keywords

• Validity
• Building
• girls
• deviance
• adolescent

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