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 Volume 5, Issue 9 (September 2018), Pages: 96-100

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Factor analysis of the revised scale of prosocial tendencies among secondary school female students in Ahwaz, Iran

 Author(s): Parvin Rezaei *, Manijeh Shehni Yailagh, Naser Behrouzi, Alireza Haji Yakhchali

 Affiliation(s):

 Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, Ahwaz, Iran

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.09.014

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 Abstract:

The present study aimed to investigate the factor structure, validity, and reliability of the revised measure of prosocial tendencies among secondary school female students in Ahwaz. The statistical population included all secondary level of secondary school female students in Ahwaz during 2017-2018, about 200 of whom were selected by using a multi-stage random sampling method. Cronbach's alpha, Spearman-Brown and Gutman formula were used to calculate the reliability of the instrument and all results indicated good significant condition. Further, the confirmatory factor analysis was used to calculate the construct validity of the mentioned instrument. This instrument has significant factor loadings with favorable fit indices and could be applied in health school studies as x2= 232.09, DF= 170, P= 0.0001, x2/df= 1.37, AGFI=0.91, GFI= 0.88, LFI= 0.94, TLI= 0.93, CFI= 0.94, and RMSEA= 0.04. The instrument as the first Persian scale which measures prosocial tendencies within juveniles alike other foreign formats could be used in educational settings and colleges. 

 © 2018 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Prosocial behavior, Eleventh grade students, Secondary school

 Article History: Received 30 April 2018, Received in revised form 17 July 2018, Accepted 28 July 2018

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.09.014

 Citation:

 Rezaei P, Yailagh MS, and Behrouzi N et al. (2018). Factor analysis of the revised scale of prosocial tendencies among secondary school female students in Ahwaz, Iran. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 5(9): 96-100

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