Reliability, Validity and Factor Structure of Marital Jealousy Scale on the Use of the Social Networking Sites in the Married Staff of University of Kashan, Iran

Subject Areas : Educational

Masoud Kiani ¹ , zadeh Melali ²

1 - Clinical Psychology, Azad University Science and Research Branch, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Academic member, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

Received: 2017-01-21 Accepted : 2018-04-23 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: marital jealousy scale, partner surveillance scale, social Networking Sites, married staff of University of Kashan, Exploratory Factor Analysis,

Abstract :

The objective of this research was to evaluate the reliability, validity and factor structure of marital jealousy scale on the use of the social networking sites (SNS). The research method was psychoanalysis and statistical population was the married men\women who employee of University of Kashan, and that use social network sites daily, and from them 223 persons were selected using simple random sampling. The participants completed the Muise, Christofides, and Desmarais, SNS Jealousy Scale (2009) and Farrugia Partner Surveillance Scale (2013). For the validity of the scale, exploratory factor analysis methods and convergent validity were used. Factor analysis of the data showed that the SNS Jealousy have four factors (including sense of infidelity, suspicion, tendency in surveillance, and sense of apprehension) and have a good convergent validity (p<0/01). Correlation between tendency in surveillance subscale and Partner Surveillance Scale indicated an appropriate convergent validity (r=0/53, p<0/01). To evaluate the reliability of the scale, internal consistency was measured by Cronbach’s Alpha yielding 0.95 which means a highly reliable scale. Based on findings of the research, it can be concluded that this scale has a high reliability and validity, which can assist us in investigating marital Jealousy on the use of the social networking sites and it can be employed for future studies.

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