Ziaei Teyebe, Khoei Effat Merghati, Salehi Mehrdad, Farajzadegan Ziba
Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2013 Nov;18(6):439-45.
The awareness regarding the contribution of sexual self-concept to healthy sexual well-being is on a rise. The Multidimensional Sexual Self-concept Questionnaire (MSSCQ) was developed to assess the 20 aspects related to sexual self-concept and has been widely applied in Western societies. The adequacy of its application in Iran has not been determined in order to guaranty its reliability and validity. An attempt was made here to interpret this questionnaire in Farsi and adopt it in Iran with respect to psychometric properties of the native youth.
A cross-sectional design was employed and 352 couples were recruited from a premarital consulting center in Isfahan, Iran on a random basis. The MSSCQ was translated into Farsi and back-translated by four bilingual scholars. Face and content validity of the questionnaire was determined. Internal consistency was evaluated by applying Cronbach's alpha. Pearson correlation coefficient was employed. The adopted model was tested through confirmatory factor analysis using SPSS-AMOS software (version 16).
The mean age of couples was 25.68 years (women 23.92 ± 2.92 years and men 27.44 ± 3.14 years). The obtained Cronbach's alpha was 0.88. Twenty-two items with an impact score below 1.5 and content validity index <0.70 were omitted. Pearson correlation showed positive and negative correlations among the dimensions. Sexual anxiety, fear of sex, and sexual depression had negative correlation with the other dimensions (r = -0.36, r = -0.43, r = -0.32, respectively). The model exhibited adequate fitness: χ(2)/df = 4.95, goodness-of-fit index = 0.95, adjusted goodness-of-fit index = 0.91, normed fit index = 0.94, comparative fit index = 0.95, and root mean square error of approximation = 0.07.
The Farsi version of MSSCQ with 78 items is valuable and reliable to be applied on the youth in Isfahan. This questionnaire was verified under two main categories through confirmatory factor analysis: negative sexual self-concept and positive sexual self-concept.
人们对性自我概念对健康性福祉的贡献的认识正在不断提高。多维性自我概念问卷(MSSCQ)旨在评估与性自我概念相关的20个方面,已在西方社会广泛应用。为确保其可靠性和有效性,尚未确定其在伊朗应用的适当性。在此尝试将该问卷翻译成波斯语,并根据伊朗本土青年的心理测量特性在伊朗采用。
采用横断面设计,从伊朗伊斯法罕的一个婚前咨询中心随机招募352对夫妇。MSSCQ被翻译成波斯语,并由四位双语学者进行回译。确定问卷的表面效度和内容效度。应用克朗巴哈系数评估内部一致性。采用皮尔逊相关系数。使用SPSS-AMOS软件(版本16)通过验证性因子分析对采用的模型进行检验。
夫妇的平均年龄为25.68岁(女性23.92±2.92岁,男性27.44±3.14岁)。获得的克朗巴哈系数为0.88。22个影响得分低于1.5且内容效度指数<0.70的项目被省略。皮尔逊相关显示各维度之间存在正相关和负相关。性焦虑、性恐惧和性抑郁与其他维度呈负相关(分别为r = -0.36、r = -0.43、r = -0.32)。该模型显示出足够的拟合度:χ(2)/df = 4.95,拟合优度指数 = 0.95,调整后拟合优度指数 = 0.91,规范拟合指数 = 0.94,比较拟合指数 = 0.95,近似均方根误差 = 0.07。
78项的波斯语版MSSCQ对伊斯法罕的青年来说是有价值且可靠的。该问卷通过验证性因子分析在两个主要类别下得到验证:负性性自我概念和正性性自我概念。