The Reliability, Validity and Factor Structure of the Revised Islamic Scale of Envy (ISE-R)

Subject Areas : Educational

Abbas Ali Haratiyan ¹ , Mohammad Reza Ahmadi ² , ابوالقاسم ولی زاده ³

1 - دانشجوی دکتری روان‌شناسی، پژوهشگاه حوزه و دانشگاه، ایران
2 - عضو هیأت علمی گروه روان‌شناسی، مؤسسه آموزشی و پژوهشی امام خمینی(ره)، ایران
3 - عضو هیأت علمی گروه معارف اسلامی، دانشگاه ارومیه، ایران

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2017-10-17

Keywords: Jealousy, Psychometric properties, validity, envy, Reliability, factor analysis,

Abstract :

The present research was conducted to evaluate the reliability and validity of the revised version of the original Islamic Scale of Envy. This is a correlational research, in which from 30000 college students associated with the Consultation Department of the Supreme Leader’s Office at universities, 1918 persons were randomly selected. The students completed the original test of Envy Scale (Vali-Zadeh, 2010/1389s.c.). For the validity of the scale, factor analysis methods (exploratory and confirmatory) and concurrent validity were used. Factor analysis of the data showed that the revised form of the Islamic Scale of Envy have four factors (including sense of irritation by others’ success, sense of deprivation and inferiority, tendency to deprive others of their blessings, and sorrow of being compared) and have a good concurrent validity. To avaluate the reliability of the scale, internal consistency was measured by Cronbach’s Alpha yielding 0.93 which means a highly reliable scale. Based on findings of the reseach, it can be concluded that this questionnaire has a high reliability and validity, which can assist us in investigating people’s temperamental and personality envy-related traits and it can be employed for clinical activities and future studies.

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