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Validity and Reliability of the Couple Relationship Questionnaire for Married Women Who Attempted Suicide.
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Amir Solaman Shahbazi1   , Fahimeh Namdarpour2 , Maryam Sharifdoust1 |
1- Islamic Azad University
2- Islamic Azad University , namdarpour@iaukhsh.ac.ir |
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Abstract: (38 Views) |
Background & aim: Suicide attempt refers to overt and identifiable actions taken with the intent to kill or harm oneself. Validity is about what a questionnaire measures, but reliability is about the faith that can be placed in a questionnaire. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to determine the validity and reliability of the marital relationship questionnaire for married women who attempted suicide.
Methods: The present survey-cross-sectional study that was conducted among 200 married women in Boyer-Ahmad County who had an unsuccessful suicide attempt using purposive sampling. In order to evaluate the validity of the questionnaire, Content, Face, Construct, Convergent, Discriminant, Cross-Validated Communality and Redundancy were used, and Cronbach's alpha, Loop method, and Composite Reliability were used to evaluate reliability. Data were analyzed using SPSS and PLS analytical software.
Results: The results indicated that convergent validity was established at the level of variables (AVE > 0.50) and at the level of items (factor loadings > 0.40) which indicated the validity and accuracy of the investigated items to measure the related variables. According to the factor loadings, in measuring the marital relationships of women who had unsuccessful suicides, the component "husband's violence against wife (0.957)" played a greater role than other components and elements; and in measuring "husband's violence against wife", the dimension "verbal violence" played a greater role than the two dimensions of emotional and physical violence. It was correspondingly displayed that divergent validity was established at the level of variables and items, and according to the Fornell-Larcker index, the square root of the extracted average variance of each variable was greater than the maximum correlation of that variable with other variables. The results of combined reliability indicated that the questionnaire had acceptable internal consistency reliability and the reliability of the measurement model is confirmed (CR > 0.70). Finally, the results of common cross-validity and redundancy revealed that the measurement model had good quality, appropriateness and predictive power (Q2 > 0.35).
Conclusion: According to the validity and reliability indicators of the measurement tool, it can be said that this questionnaire was appropriate in terms of content. The items were able to measure the desired variables. Moreover, the questionnaire had a worthy and satisfactory quality and can can be a prper tool for measuring couple relationships of married women who have had an unsuccessful suicide experience. |
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| Keywords: Suicide Attempt, Reliability, Validity, Couple Celationships, Questionnaire. |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
Psychology
Received: 2025/05/4 | Accepted: 2025/06/17 | Published: 2026/02/3
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