Factor Structure and Internal Consistency of the Harman-Jones Attitude Toward Emotion Scale (ATES)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the factor structure and internal consistency of the Harman-Jones (2011) attitude toward the emotion scale (ATES) among the highschool grade 2 students in the academic year of 2018-2019. The statistical population of this study includes all second-grade students in Tehran and a sample of 252 high school students in Fatemiyeh high school in the 6th area of 14th region city of Tehran and the tool used to measure Harman-Jones's attitude toward the emotion. The findings of the exploratory analysis indicated that this scale is by the culture of Iranian adolescents, covering five factors of attitude toward anger, sadness, agony, fear, and pleasure, which together account for 58.92% of the total variance. The items related to these five factors have a T value of above 1.96 and a useful load factor of more than 0.4 and a standard load of more than 0.3. The fitting indices were also reached to desirable proportions, and since RMSEA is less than 0.08, the relative chi-square is less than 3, and the GFI, NFI, CFI, and IFI fit index is 0.9, so the 5-factor model discovered in the analysis Exploration has been confirmed in the confirmation analysis and is consistent with the culture of Iranian adolescents over 16 years of age. Also, each of the five factors has an alpha value higher than 0.7, which is consistent with internal consistency.