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Volume 24, Issue 151 (9-2025)
Journal of Psychological Science 2025, 24(151): 55-75 |
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Mohebbi M, Ashouri M, Alizadeh Maralani F, Elahi T. (2025). Construction, Design, and Psychometric Properties of Questionnaire of Students' Parents Participation Facilitators in the School's Family Training Courses. Journal of Psychological Science. 24(151), 55-75.
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Assistant Professor of Department of Psychology and Counselling, Farhangian University, P.O. Box 14665-889, Tehran, Iran. , Minamohebbi@cfu.ac.ir
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Background: Schools are considered the main educational institution and the successful performance of this institution cannot be achieved without the strong presence and comprehensive participation of parents. On the other hand, parents are children's first teachers, and the importance of their participation and empowerment in educational courses is not hidden from any education experts and policymakers.
Aims: The purpose of this study was to construct, design, and investigate the psychometric properties of Questionnaire of Students' Parents Participation Facilitators in the School's Family Training Courses.
Methods: The research method was a mixed exploratory research. In the first phase of the study, research method was qualitative and used the theme analysis. However, in the quantitative phase, a descriptive study of the developmental-applied type was designed and conducted. The statistical population in the qualitative phase include all specialists in family psychology and psychometrics in Zanjan province; The sample consisted of 12 experts who were selected using available sampling method until theoretical saturation was reached. The statistical population in the quantitative section consisted of all parents of students in the Zanjan province in the academic year 2020-2021. The sample consisted of 2217 parents of students who were selected by stratified random sampling method. The collected data were analyzed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis using SPSS.26 and AMOS.24 software.
Results: The results of the face and content validity of the questionnaire were confirmed qualitatively and quantitatively. Also, the results of exploratory factor analysis were extracted and named on the items of this questionnaire using the principal component method, five factors named «personal and family facilitators», «school-related facilitators», «facilitators related to the teacher and the content of the courses», «parents' preferences and needs», and «parents' external motivations» were extracted and named. The consistency of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha method for each of the factors was higher than 0.60. The findings of confirmatory factor analysis also showed that the Parental Participation Facilitator Questionnaire is relevant to the data (p< 0.001).
Conclusion: The results of this research showed that the mentioned questionnaire can be used by researchers in the field of family and education as a valid and reliable instrument.
Aims: The purpose of this study was to construct, design, and investigate the psychometric properties of Questionnaire of Students' Parents Participation Facilitators in the School's Family Training Courses.
Methods: The research method was a mixed exploratory research. In the first phase of the study, research method was qualitative and used the theme analysis. However, in the quantitative phase, a descriptive study of the developmental-applied type was designed and conducted. The statistical population in the qualitative phase include all specialists in family psychology and psychometrics in Zanjan province; The sample consisted of 12 experts who were selected using available sampling method until theoretical saturation was reached. The statistical population in the quantitative section consisted of all parents of students in the Zanjan province in the academic year 2020-2021. The sample consisted of 2217 parents of students who were selected by stratified random sampling method. The collected data were analyzed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis using SPSS.26 and AMOS.24 software.
Results: The results of the face and content validity of the questionnaire were confirmed qualitatively and quantitatively. Also, the results of exploratory factor analysis were extracted and named on the items of this questionnaire using the principal component method, five factors named «personal and family facilitators», «school-related facilitators», «facilitators related to the teacher and the content of the courses», «parents' preferences and needs», and «parents' external motivations» were extracted and named. The consistency of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha method for each of the factors was higher than 0.60. The findings of confirmatory factor analysis also showed that the Parental Participation Facilitator Questionnaire is relevant to the data (p< 0.001).
Conclusion: The results of this research showed that the mentioned questionnaire can be used by researchers in the field of family and education as a valid and reliable instrument.
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Received: 2024/08/6 | Accepted: 2024/10/11 | Published: 2025/09/19
Received: 2024/08/6 | Accepted: 2024/10/11 | Published: 2025/09/19
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