Psychometric Indicators of Social Support Questionnaire for Peers Procidano and Heller

The present study was conducted to evaluate the psychometric indices of Procidano and Heller,s peer support questionnaire. The sample size of this study was 500 female high school students who were selected by cluster sampling method from public secondary high schools of Tehran respond to the questionnaire. The results of exploratory factor analysis by main components method, in addition to the general factor of peer social support questionnaire, confirmed 5 factors (support, care, assistance, information and feedback) for the procidano and Heller peer social support questionnaire. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to assess the reliability of the questionnaire. The results showed that the questionnaire had acceptable internal consistency and Cronbach's alpha coefficients were below 0.87 to 0.88. . The results showed that the questionnaire had an acceptable internal consistency, and the Cronbach's alpha coefficients in the sub-scales ranged from 0.87 to 0.88. However, to determine the validity of the factor, a confirmatory factor analysis was used which the results of confirmatory factor analysis confirm that the structure of the questionnaire has an acceptable fit with the data and confirms all the indicators of goodness of fit of the model. Factor analysis findings were almost similar to that of the original culture, and the reliability and validity coefficients were close to the results of previous research. Therefore, considering the desirable psychometric properties of this questionnaire, this tool was a suitable tool for determining the social support peers, From the point of view of high school students.