The psychometric characteristics of the victimization questionnaire in primary schools in Semnan

The victimization is one of the problems that exist today in schools across the world. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to validate the victimization scale in children. To this end, 607 students of Semnan were selected by using a stratified sampling method and to victimization scale, Illinois bullying scale and Harter’s motivation questionnaire responded. For data analysis, of factor analysis method, Cronbach's alpha coefficients and Pearson correlations were used. Factor analysis showed that the victim scale has one factor. Validation showed that the structures with bullying (0.53), absence from school (0.18), academic motivation (-0.15) and academic achievement (-0.17) had a significant relationship (p≤0.01). Also, victim scale reliability using Cronbach’s alpha for the total scale 0.88 was satisfactory. Data answer questions victim scale with Samejima model had a good fitness and more information about the test showed that the slopes of 0.4 to -1.8 had s continuum feature. Results indicated that victimization in the Persian version of the questionnaire has acceptable psychometric properties of school students, and it can be used as a valid instrument in psychological research.