Construction and Normalization of Adolescent Social Loafing Questionnaire

Background:

 Nowadays use of teams and work groups to perform different tasks is increasing Social loafing point to the important thing that people may show less conscious effort in group than when working individually .

The present study aimed to Construction and Standardization of adolescents social loafing questionnaire

This research is a descriptive study in which 27 high school students of Kermanshah city (first and second secondary) participated A 34-item questionnaire, developed based on research literature and was completed by students for data collection. To determine the number of factor s of questionnaire, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis by LISREL 8.7 and SPSS 16.0 software were used. Also awareness function of questions calculated by using software MULTI-LOG.

The research showed that the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of questionnaire that indicates the inner reliability and parallelism is high.( α =0.923) and validity through exploratory factor analysis by varimax's method produced four factors that are: Job characteristics, individual perception, group characteristics, inferiority and negative perceptions. Also by using of first and second order confirmatory factor analysis these four factors examined and results showed that validity of questionnaire is acceptable. Discussion and

Research findings indicate that adolescents social loafing questionnaire have acceptable psychometric characteristics. and it can be use as valid and reliable tool for research in Sociology and psychologically