International Journal of Behavioral Sciences

International Journal of Behavioral Sciences

A Study on Factor Structure and Validation of Social Reward Questionnaire in Iranian Youth

Authors
Atie Arab Mohebi Shahrabi 1
Fereshte sadat Mortazavi Nasiri 1
ٍٍShahla Pakdaman 2
Seyed Mohammad Sadatian 3
Fateme Sadat Madani 3
1 Department of Psychology, School of Education and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Education and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Department of Psychology, School of Education and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
AbstractIntroduction: The present study was carried out with the aim of investigating the reliability, validity, and standardization of social reward questionnaire (SRQ) in Iranian youth. Method: This is a descriptive (correlative) study for which 419 youth of 18 to 36 years responded to SRQ. The data was studied using exploratory factor analysis, Cronbach’s Alpha and Pearson correlation coefficient.  Result: The analysis of exploratory data showed that 18 items of SQR have been loaded on four factors of "acceptance", "prosocial interactions", "sexual/abusive relations" and "negative social potency." The Cronbach’s Alpha coefficients obtained for the four items stood at 0.75, 0.67, 0.61 and 0.38, respectively.Conclusion: The results of the present study confirm the stability of factor structure and validity of social reward questionnaire for measuring this concept in Iranian youth.
Keywords
Reward
Factor analysis
Validation Studies
Reproducibility of results
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International Journal of Behavioral Sciences
Volume 11, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
65
Autumn 2017
Pages 96-100