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Volume 24, Issue 150 (8-2025)
Journal of Psychological Science 2025, 24(150): 321-336 |
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Rezaei Behdani S, Ghazanfari A, Ahmadi R. (2025). Validation of the Social Motivation Scale in People with Physical- motor AND mental-psychological disabilities. Journal of Psychological Science. 24(150), 321-336.
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Associate professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran. , agzhaan5@yahoo.com
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Background: Assessing social motivation can help to better understand the needs, capabilities, and psychological and social barriers of people with disabilities. However, there are few direct tools to measure social motivation in the disabled population. Despite the importance of social motivation in people with Physical- motor AND mental-psychological disabilities and the availability of a reliable tool to measure it, there is no standard scale in Iran to assess this construct for people with disabilities.
Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the validation of the social motivation scale in people with Physical- motor AND mental-psychological disabilities in Yazd.
Methods: The method of this research was a descriptive-crosssectional a type of Psychometric studies. The statistical population of the study included all individuals aged 18 to 40 with physical- motor, psychological, and mental disabilities in the city of Yazd (1540 people) in 2024. Based on the Kline (2023) method, given that the number of questions in the scale under study (social motivation scale) was 26 questions, the sample size of the study was 520 people. The instrument used in this study was the Social Motivation Scale (Phillips et al., 2021). After translation and necessary adaptations, the final version was administered using a simple random samplingto 520 people with disabilities in Yazd city. Also, correlation coefficient test, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and SPSS software were used to analyze the data in this study.
Results: The results of data analysis in this study showed that the social motivation scale had appropriate face and content validity. The data also indicated that this scale has a five-factor structure in people with Physical- motor AND mental-psychological disabilities, and this five-factor scale model had a good fit. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the subscales ranged from 0.77 to 0.93 and for the total score was 0.88. The results also showed that the factor loading of all scale questions was higher than 0.60.
Conclusion: Overall, this scale appears to have adequate validity for measuring social motivation in people with Physical- motor AND mental-psychological disabilities among the Iranian sample, and it can be used for counseling and rehabilitation purposes in people with disabilities.
Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the validation of the social motivation scale in people with Physical- motor AND mental-psychological disabilities in Yazd.
Methods: The method of this research was a descriptive-crosssectional a type of Psychometric studies. The statistical population of the study included all individuals aged 18 to 40 with physical- motor, psychological, and mental disabilities in the city of Yazd (1540 people) in 2024. Based on the Kline (2023) method, given that the number of questions in the scale under study (social motivation scale) was 26 questions, the sample size of the study was 520 people. The instrument used in this study was the Social Motivation Scale (Phillips et al., 2021). After translation and necessary adaptations, the final version was administered using a simple random samplingto 520 people with disabilities in Yazd city. Also, correlation coefficient test, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and SPSS software were used to analyze the data in this study.
Results: The results of data analysis in this study showed that the social motivation scale had appropriate face and content validity. The data also indicated that this scale has a five-factor structure in people with Physical- motor AND mental-psychological disabilities, and this five-factor scale model had a good fit. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the subscales ranged from 0.77 to 0.93 and for the total score was 0.88. The results also showed that the factor loading of all scale questions was higher than 0.60.
Conclusion: Overall, this scale appears to have adequate validity for measuring social motivation in people with Physical- motor AND mental-psychological disabilities among the Iranian sample, and it can be used for counseling and rehabilitation purposes in people with disabilities.
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