Constructing and Exploring the Reliability of the Islamic Type of Craving - Contentment Measure

The aim of this research is constructing a craving contentment measure based on Islamic doctrines which can be used for evaluating the vice of craving and virtue of contentment. After constructing and exploring the validity of the initial assessment, a questionnaire with 29 questions was conducted and completed by 475 university students and seminary students who were chosen through random cluster-sampling. The validity of the measure was examined and, resting on the 91/14 percent of experts accommodation and significance of Kondal's coincidence coefficient the findings show that the measure has large-scale validity content. The finding analysis shows that the Islamic type of craving – contentment measure has four factors: (material preoccupation/ feeling of material safety, material arbitrary/ material self-control, weakness in religious knowledge and zeal/ excess of religious knowledge and zeal, feeling of material deprivation and need/ material satisfaction). The retest coefficient: 0/887, Cronbach's Alpha: 0/863 and coefficient of split- half: 0/823 show that this measure in strongly reliable. Given the findings of research, we can say that this questionnaire has large-scale reliability and validity and provide coherent factors which can have an effective role in studying people's moral characteristics of craving contentment when they taken into account.