Instrumentation and validation of a questionnaire of factors affecting behavioral consequences in accidents
Subject Areas :Shahin Fathi 1 , Ahmad Ghazanfari 2 , Farhad Jomehri 3 , Tayebeh Sharifi 4
1 - ph.D. student Department of Psychology , shahrekord branch,Islamic Azad university, shahrekord, Iran
2 - Associate Professor Department of Psychology , shahrekord branch,Islamic Azad university, shahrekord, Iran.
3 - Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Psychology, shahrekord branch,Islamic Azad university, shahrekord, Iran.
4 - Associate Professor Department of Psychology, shahrekord branch,Islamic Azad university, shahrekord, Iran.
Keywords: Behavioral Consequences, Accidents, Validation, Factor Analysis, Tooling,
Abstract :
Abstract Due to its geographical location, Iran has frequently faced natural disasters, especially earthquakes, which highlights the need to use the disaster management process. The purpose of the present study was to validate and construct a questionnaire of factors affecting behavioral outcomes in accidents. Since this questionnaire was not designed and validated by local and indigenous researchers, the design of such a questionnaire is very important. Thus, using a survey research, 384 citizens of Tehran were selected and studied using multi-stage cluster sampling method, so that the desired test can be tested and validated based on it. First, 28 items were designed and 8 experts in the field of accident management and psychology, relying on the content validity based on the panel of experts, evaluated and corrected the items as well as the validity of the questionnaire. The questionnaire had both validity and acceptable reliability. Then, using exploratory factor analysis, more accurate validation was performed on the questionnaire. The findings of this analysis showed that the behavioral consequences of accidents can be examined based on the four components of civic behavior in accidents, lawfulness in accidents, self-care in accidents and empathy in accidents. Keywords: Behavioral Consequences, Accidents, Validation, Factor Analysis.