Design and Validation of Scale Measurement of Couple Problems in Abandoned Couples

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Mahsa Danesh ¹ (Department of Counseling, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran.)
Ali Mohammad Nazari ² (Faculty of Medicine, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran)
Ali Jahangiri ³ (Department of Psychology and Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2022-01-10 Accepted : 2022-02-17 Published : 2024-06-25

Keywords: marital problems, couples, separation, validity,

Abstract :

The importance of the institution of the family is felt in the individual and social life of man. The purpose of this study is to construct and validate a questionnaire to assess couple problems in divorced couples under the auspices of the Relief Committee. For this purpose, first, using a phenomenological approach, the in-depth experiments of the participants' mental experiences were examined and the content of the indicators of couple problems was identified from the content of the interviews and finally a questionnaire was designed based on these indicators. Then, the measurement model for structural validity was presented and also divergent validity was examined. Then, using the least partial approach, the relationship between the research variables and the main research model was determined. The raw data obtained from the statistical population were analyzed using appropriate statistical techniques and Smart PLS and SPSS.22 software and analyzed in the form of information. To measure the significance of relationships, t-statistic has been calculated with bootstrapping technique and its results show that the severity of the effect of couple problems in abandoned couples with economic factors equal to 0.69, with psychological factors equal to 0.85, with socio-cultural factors Is equal to 0.83 and with religious factors is equal to 0.70. The results of the model show that the categories defined in the model obtained from the qualitative section were significant and the variables considered in each section also had a significant effect.