Investigating the psychometric adequacy of nostalgia inventory (NI)

Nostalgia as one of the complex emotion that discussed conceptual challenges on entity and functions of in nineteen and twenty century. Beside assessment of nostalgia is important.
Aim: our objective of this research, preparation of necessary preliminary work to using Batcho’s nostalgia inventory (1995) for psychological research in Iran.
in this cross sectional study, 201 graduate and Ph.D. student were participated. Then, they are respond to nostalgia inventory (NI), check manipulation test (wildschut et al, 2006) and aspiration index (kasser & rayan, 2006).
The results showed these factors: “attachment to foretime”, “longing to home”, “tranquility of foretime” and convergent validity and reliability evidences for NI.
the result was showed evidences for construct validity, convergent validity and internal consistency of NI, also result was showed gender difference in some of factors.