Constructing the Scale of God-awareness and Investigating its Psychometric Features

The present study aims at preparing and constructing the scale of “God-awareness” based on teachings extracted from Islamic reliable sources, and determining its psychometric features (reliability and validity). To do so, we first classified, through a descriptive analysis of the texts, the Quranic verses and traditions related to the construct of God-awareness, and then designed the propositions marking that construct. After confirming the validity the scale by eight experts in university and seminary, we finally arrived at a questionnaire composed of 25 items in a four-choice likert spectrum and tested it. In the final stage, first we selected 225 subject and then 200 subjects through random cluster sampling, and investigated the psychometric feature of the scale through a survey method. The findings showed that the scale of God-awareness enjoys a high level of validity in content, criterion, construct and incremental validity. In analyzing the exploratory factors, four factors were obtained. The relationship between the scale of God-awareness and some of the psychological scales showed an incremental validity and its potential to explain and predict as a psychological device. The scale enjoys the necessary and desirable level of reliability obtained through re-testing, split-half, internal consistency and Cronbach’s alpha (0.90) methods. As a result, the scale of God-awareness can be used as a device with reliable and valid psychometric features in Islamic and psychological researches.