Investigation of the Psychometric Properties of Social-Emotional Assets and Resiliency Scale in Normal and Deaf Preschool Children

The purpose of the present research was to standardization and investigation of the psychometric properties of social-emotional assets and resiliency scale for normal and deaf preschool children.

This study was a descriptive research and survey type. The statistical population of the present research were experts and mothers of normal and deaf preschool children in Isfahan city in 2018-2019 academic year. The sample includes 10, 310 and 62 experts and mothers of normal and deaf children respectively who were selected randomly. The viewpoints of 10 experts were gathered to assess the questionnaire’s face and content validity. Lawashe method and Waltz & Bausell method were used to calculate content validity index. Construct validity was analyzed using factor analysis. The reliability of scale was calculate using Cronbach’s alpha.

The scale was constructed in 5 subscales and 42 items with a set of 4 answer choices for each question. The face validity and content validity (CVI=0/83) was confirmed satisfactory. Content validity index was 0/83, 0/89, 0/83, 0/81 and 0/84 for subscales of self-regulation, social competence, empathy, responsibility and emotion knowledge, respectively. The reliability using Cronbach’s alpha was 0/88 for the total score and 0/87, 0/86, 0/90, 0/84 and 0/85 for the subscales, respectively.

The social-emotional assets and resiliency scale for normal and deaf preschool children has been shown to be a valid and reliable tool. Therefore, has capable to be used in Iranian society and can be used for assessing emotional competency of normal and deaf preschool children.