Developing and Validating of Couples Communication Skills Inventory in Married Couples in Tehran

Subject Areas : Psychological Models and Methods

N. Dastan ¹ , GH. Rajabi ² , A. Khoshkonesh ³ , R. Khojasteh Mehr ⁴

1 - دانشجوی دکتری رشته ی مشاوره دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز
2 - دانشیار و عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز
3 - استادیار و عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه شهید بهشتی تهران
4 - استادیار و عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز

Received: 2015-12-15 Accepted : 2015-12-15 Published : 2010-09-23

Keywords: validity, Reliability, exploratory factor analysis, Communication Skills, Couple,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to develop, validate, reliability and standardization of couples communication skills inventory in married Couples in Tehran. Method: The present study was administered on 342 participants were selected using sampling available method. Results: The results based on item total correlation showed that Cornbach's alpha and test-retest reliability coefficient for the scale were 0.93 and 0.92 respectively. The result of principle component analysis (PCA) and Varimax rotation showed the structure of the scale in Iranian population (deleting 14 items without the factor loads) contains 3 factors (verbal communication and empathy; communicative barriers; sexual communication skill). The correlation coefficients between the factors of communication skills and Quality of Marriage Index confirmed the convergent validity of the scale. Furthermore, the discriminate validity coefficient of communication skills showed that it can discriminate normal group from communicatively unable group. Conculsion: In general, we can say that the results of this study had the empirical support for the validity and reliability of this scale in the research sample.