Hajar Falahzadeh, Valiollah Farzad, Mahmood Falahzadeh,
Volume 5, Issue 1 (9-2011)
Abstract
The purpose of the present research was to examine the factor structure of Fear of Intimacy Scale (Descutner & Thelen, 1991) and to get an acute tool which measures the degree of the Fear of Intimacy among the Iranian people. Population of the study included some married couples living in Tehran, Iran. A sample of 567 subjects, 329 females (58%) and 238 males (41.9%), completed the relevant questionnaire. Exploratory and confirmatory Factor Analysis was used to analyze the structure of the questionnaire. Factor analysis revealed two factors existed among the 35 items of the questionnaire: fear of intimacy in the relationship with the spouse, fear of intimacy in the relationship with the others. The internal consistency for the whole scale, factor 1 and factor 2 was 0.83 ,0.81 ,0.72 respectively test-retest reliability for the whole scale, factor 1 and factor 2 was 0.92, 0.87,0.85 respectively. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the data hadsignificant correlation. Negative correlation(-0.58) between this scale and the intimacy scale of walker and Thompson was indicative of the construct validity of test. FIS can be used to help those having problems in increasing the level of intimacy with others especially their spouse. Further, this scale can be used in clinical works and research.
Dr. Fatteme Raiisi,
Volume 20, Issue 2 (9-2023)
Abstract
Pain is one of the abstract concepts in the field of health psychology, which is expressed with conceptual metaphors. Persian-language speakers, like other languages, apply different source domains and mappings. The purpose of this study was to design, make and evaluate the psychometric characteristics of a pain metaphorical perception questionnaire in Persian-speaking patients with chronic diseases. The method of this study was descriptive and psychometric and it was a survey type of research. based on the cognitive analysis of Raiisi's pain metaphors(2021), nine metaphorical mappings were extracted, which were respectively object, causality, path and direction, human, place, taste, container, force, and circle. Based on source domains, a questionnaire with25 questions was created using a Likert response scale. The content validity of questions was evaluated by3 cognitive linguistics experts,2 health psychologists,3 physicians, and2 psychometric experts. the questionnaire was completed availability and voluntarily by 250 monolingual Persian-speaking patients with chronic diseases in2022-2023. The results indicated that there was a reliability coefficient by using Cronbach's alpha for the whole questionnaire and its components. the result of the factor analysis showed that this questionnaire consists of four factors including object, force, human, and causality, which explain24.66% of the total variance of the factors.
