Zarei Fatemeh, Solhi Mahnaz, Merghati-Khoei Effat, Taghdisi Mohammad Hossein, Shojaeizadeh Davoud, Taket Ann Rosemary, Masoomi Razieh, Nedjat Saharnaz
Dept. of Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Dept. of Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Public Health. 2017 May;46(5):640-649.
Divorce, especially in women, could be assessed from socio-cultural perspective as well as psychological viewpoint. This assessment requires cultural adopted as well as valid and reliable questionnaire. This study aimed to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a questionnaire in order to address social consequences in Iranian divorced women.
This was an exploratory mixed method study conducted during 2012 to 2014. According to the grounded theory approach in the first phase, social exclusion was extracted as a core of understanding process in participants. Based on, 47 preliminary generated items reliability and validity were assessed. In the second phase, the divorced women were recruited from a safe community center in Tehran through convenience sampling.
Exploratory factor analysis conducted on the questionnaires of 150 divorced women with mean age 41.76±8.49 yr, in that, indicated five dimensions, discriminative marital status, economic dependence on marital status, exclusionary marital status, and traumatic marital status health risks and, frightening marital status that jointly accounted for the 64% of the variance observed. An expert panel approved the face and content validity of the developed tool. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient and the Intra-class Correlation Coefficient were found to be 0.70 and 0.85, respectively.
The present study provided a valid and reliable measure as Social Exclusion Questionnaire in Iranian divorced women (SEQ-IDW) to address social post-divorce consequences, which might help to improve women's social health.
离婚,尤其是女性离婚,可以从社会文化和心理角度进行评估。这种评估需要采用适合文化背景且有效可靠的问卷。本研究旨在开发并评估一份问卷的心理测量特性,以探讨伊朗离婚女性的社会后果。
这是一项于2012年至2014年开展的探索性混合方法研究。在第一阶段,根据扎根理论方法,将社会排斥作为参与者理解过程的核心提取出来。在此基础上,对初步生成的47个项目进行了信效度评估。在第二阶段,通过便利抽样从德黑兰一个安全的社区中心招募离婚女性。
对150名平均年龄为41.76±8.49岁的离婚女性的问卷进行探索性因素分析,结果显示有五个维度,即歧视性婚姻状况、经济对婚姻状况的依赖、排他性婚姻状况、创伤性婚姻状况健康风险以及令人恐惧的婚姻状况,这些维度共同解释了观察到的64%的方差。一个专家小组认可了所开发工具的表面效度和内容效度。发现克朗巴哈系数和组内相关系数分别为0.70和0.85。
本研究提供了一种有效可靠的测量工具,即伊朗离婚女性社会排斥问卷(SEQ-IDW),以探讨离婚后的社会后果,这可能有助于改善女性的社会健康状况。