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Esmaiel soleymany; hanie pakravan
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Objective: Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies affecting women globally, with significant physical, psychological, and social consequences. Treatments such as mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy often lead to body image disturbances, reduced self-esteem, and lower quality ...
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Objective: Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies affecting women globally, with significant physical, psychological, and social consequences. Treatments such as mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy often lead to body image disturbances, reduced self-esteem, and lower quality of life. Among psychological coping strategies, body acceptance, defined as acknowledging, normalizing, and adapting to bodily changes, plays a key role in promoting mental well-being in breast cancer patients. This study aimed to validate and norm the Body Acceptance Scale for Women with Breast Cancer (BAS-BC), a newly developed instrument designed to assess body acceptance among breast cancer survivors. The research evaluated the psychometric properties of the BAS-BC in an Iranian population. Method: A descriptive validation design was employed. Participants included 457 Iranian women diagnosed with breast cancer, recruited via convenience sampling. Data were collected online through validated instruments: BAS-BC (Ahn & Suh, 2023), the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ), and the SF-36 Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire. Statistical analyses, including confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), Pearson correlation, and Cronbach’s alpha, were conducted using SPSS-23 and AMOS-24. Results: CFA supported a six-factor structure of the BAS-BC (exposure, perception, adaptation, return to daily life, successful transition, and leap toward the future), consisting of 17 items. The scale demonstrated high internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.84). Convergent validity was confirmed through significant correlations between BAS-BC scores and both MBSRQ and SF-36 measures. The six factors explained 82.5% of the total variance, indicating strong construct validity. Conclusion: The BAS-BC offers a robust tool for both research and clinical assessment of body acceptance among breast cancer patients. Its application can inform personalized therapeutic approaches aimed at improving psychosocial outcomes and quality of life. Future research should explore cultural influences on body acceptance and develop targeted interventions to support body image adjustment in this population.
Shahrzad Sanjari; Foozieh Rafati; Azita Amirfakhraei; mohamad reza mohamade solymane; Eshrat Karimi Afshar
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Objective: Validation of the Maternity Fear Scale can help identify women with high fears of pregnancy. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the factor structure and validation of the electronic form of the CAQ fear of childbirth questionnaire in pregnant women. Method: This study ...
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Objective: Validation of the Maternity Fear Scale can help identify women with high fears of pregnancy. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the factor structure and validation of the electronic form of the CAQ fear of childbirth questionnaire in pregnant women. Method: This study is a psychometric tool that the statistical population included all pregnant women in Jiroft. The number of samples was determined based on psychometric criteria of 100 people for the predictive narrative section and 251 people for the convergence narrative section. The samples were selected by cluster sampling. The research information was collected electronically through two questionnaires of childbirth fear (CAQ) and fear of postpartum delivery by sending a questionnaire link to the participants' mobile phones. Content validation methods, convergence and factor analysis were used to evaluate the validity of the scale. The reliability of the scale was assessed by internal consistency and purity reliability methods. Findings: The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that the researcher-made questionnaire consists of three factors and has good validity and reliability. The second-order confirmatory factor analysis also confirmed the three-factor model. The questionnaire was implemented along with a short form of CAQ fear of childbirth, which had a good reliability and validity with 13 items. Conclusion: A researcher-made questionnaire on the prevalence of CAQ scares in pregnant women can be used to assess the fear of childbirth in pregnant women.
shahnaz nouhi; masood janbozorgi; mojgan agah haris; Avisa Najimi
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Objective: In creating weight problems in children and adults, individual differences in several dimensions of eating and eating style have been indicated. In this study, standardization, validity and reliability of the children's eating behavior questionnaire were examined. Method: This questionnaire ...
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Objective: In creating weight problems in children and adults, individual differences in several dimensions of eating and eating style have been indicated. In this study, standardization, validity and reliability of the children's eating behavior questionnaire were examined. Method: This questionnaire consists of 35 questions that include eight factors affecting eating behavior (food enjoyment, food responsiveness, food sensitivity, relaxation, satiety response, emotional overeating, desire to drink, and less). Measures emotional eating. The subjects were 325 elementary school students who were randomly selected for multi-stage cluster sampling. To investigate the validity of the questionnaire, the exploratory factor analysis method was analyzed by analysis of the main components and Cranbach's alpha method was used to investigate the reliability. Findings: The findings of the factor analysis section showed that by factor analysis, questions and rotation of results are revealed by warimax method of eight components, the number of these components obtained and also the questions that had a high factor load with these components. To a large extent, it is consistent with the findings of the authors of the questionnaire. Conclusion: Due to the strength of the structure and having appropriate psychometric apecifications, the final questionnarie had the capability to be used by researchers.
Sadigheh Heydari; Parvin Esfandiari nezhad; Majid Barzegar; Mehrnaz Azadyekta
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Objective: Pregnancy is the biggest event in a woman's life, which is not a welcome event for all women, and in cases where it is not properly managed, it puts a lot of stress on her mother and those around her. The overall purpose of this study is to investigate Psychometric properties of fear of preterm ...
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Objective: Pregnancy is the biggest event in a woman's life, which is not a welcome event for all women, and in cases where it is not properly managed, it puts a lot of stress on her mother and those around her. The overall purpose of this study is to investigate Psychometric properties of fear of preterm delivery questionnaire and its relationship with marriage duration among couples. Methods: The present study consisted of two parts of test-descriptive-correlation and statistical sample of 150 couples referring to health center number one in Izeh city that were selected by multistage cluster sampling. Data were analyzed using SPSS-24 software. Findings: showed that the factor loadings greater than 0.3 determined that the questionnaire was saturated by two factors. These two factors are explained by about 60.314 for women and 69.937 for their husbands, and explained the percentage of variance. Correlation findings also showed that the fear of delivery with marriage duration for women and for their husbands have a reverse relationship. The inverse relationship between education and age with fear of pre-natal delivery is one of the side findings of this study. Conclusion: standardized Persian instrument "Fear of Preterm Delivery" has acceptable psychometric properties in Iranian sample. Also, There is a significant inverse relationship between the duration of marriage and fear of childbirth.
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Mohammad Javed Bagiyan Koulemarz; jahangir karami; khodamorad momeni; adele elahi
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Objective: The study of the Psychometric Properties Inventory that considers the Motivations for Suicide Attempts in all the theories concerned it can be proportional to the type of motivation,confined for evaluation, diagnosis and intervention. The purpose of this research was to measuring psychometric ...
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Objective: The study of the Psychometric Properties Inventory that considers the Motivations for Suicide Attempts in all the theories concerned it can be proportional to the type of motivation,confined for evaluation, diagnosis and intervention. The purpose of this research was to measuring psychometric properties of the Inventory of Motivations for Suicide Attempts (IMSA). Method: The sample consisted of 250 suicide attempted persons who were selected by Purposive sampling method. The data was analyzed through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.Result: The results of the exploratory factor analysis identified 9 factors, which in total, explained 64.11% of the variance in mental pain. 43 items in 9 factors were validated by confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.94 for the whole IMSA, 0.83 for Hopelessness, 0.75 for Psychache, 0.76 for Escape, 0.68 for Burdensomeness, 0.68 for Low Belongingness, 0.68 for Fearlessness, 0.72 for Interpersonal Influence, 0.75 for Help-Seeking and 0.73 for Impulsivity.Conclusion: Persian version of Inventory of Motivations for Suicide Attempts (IMSA) has acceptable psychometric properties among Suicide Attempts and can be used as a valid tool for both clinical and research goals when a comprehensive assessment of Motivations for Suicide Attempts is needed.
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jahangir karami; M.Javad Bagian; khodamorad Momeni; Adele Elahi
Volume 7, Issue 25 , June 2018, , Pages 146-172
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Objective: mental pain is a psychological experience, including negative self-evaluation; therefore, it should be measured by self-report tools. The aim of the present study was to determine factor structure and psychometric properties of Mental Pain Scale.Method: this was correlational study and its ...
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Objective: mental pain is a psychological experience, including negative self-evaluation; therefore, it should be measured by self-report tools. The aim of the present study was to determine factor structure and psychometric properties of Mental Pain Scale.Method: this was correlational study and its statistic population consisted all students of the University of Razi Kermanshah. The sample included 300 of these students selected via multi-stage random cluster sampling method. The data was analyzed through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis by SPSS-22 and AMOS-21 software.Result: the results showed a significant positive correlation among components of mental pain, anxiety, depression, and negative cognitive emotional regulation strategies (P≥0.001). Also, a significant positive correlation was found among components of mental pain and self-compassion (P≥0.001). The results of the exploratory factor analysis identified 6 factors, which in total, explained 66.40% of the variance in mental pain. 44 items in 6 factors were validated by confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.966 for the whole MPS, 0.925 for emptiness, 0.893 for emotional flooding, 0.877 for loss of control, 0.872 for irreversibility, 0.869 for self-estrangement, and 0.617 for freezing.Conclusion: Persian version of Mental Pain Scale has acceptable psychometric properties among academic students and can be used as a valid tool in psychological research.
