Construction and validation of Iranian midlife challenges scale
Construction and validation of Iranian midlife challenges scale

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present study is providing a viable tool for research in the field of middle age development that could help in the setting up of various researches in this field. Therefore, after examining the various theories about the middle age development 12 areas of developmental challenges were identified and based on them 66 questions (on average 5.5 questions for each domain) was designed. In the first, the questions were assessed in terms of content validity by four experts in the field of developmental psychology and then the wording of some questions modified. Later, the questionnaire was conducted on 398 participants (204 females and 194 males) between the ages of 40-65 years of residents of 22 districts of Tehran. The results showed that the scale has 7 factors include: job satisfaction, concerns, social responsibility, and lack of pleasure, leisure, family attachment, marital satisfaction and feel close to death. The internal consistency of the questionnaire showed that all subscales enjoy of acceptable validity. As a result, the scale is applicable to conduct research in the field of middleaged developmental challenges.

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