Construction and Validation of the Lifestyle Questionnaire (LSQ)

The current research was aimed at constructing and validating the Lifestyle Questionnaire. The Statistical population consisted of all school teachers employed by the city of Isfahan’s board of education in the year 2009-2010. Participants included 300 teachers (145 men and 155 women) selected via cluster random sampling. The instruments were the Lifestyle Questionnaire (LSQ), which was constructed by the researchers, and Ryff’s scales of Psychological Well-being (RSPWB). The LSQ is shown to have sufficiently high validity and reliability to measure individual lifestyle. Factor analysis results show that the lifestyle questionnaire (LSQ) is multidimen-sional, consisting of ten factors, namely: physical health, exercise and fitness, weight control and nutrition, illness prevention, psychological health, spiritual health, social health, drug and alcohol avoidance, accident prevention, and environmental health respectively according to their eigenvalue and percentage of variance