Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the State Shame and Guilt Scale (SSGS) among Students

The goal of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the State Shame and Guilt Scale among students. The method of this descriptive study was psychometric and of correlational plans and the sampling method was convenience sampling. The research population includes all the students of public and Azad universities of Tehran and Alborz provinces who were studying in the academic year 1398-1399, initially 998 participants and then by including valid questionnaires 976 participants completed the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (Meyer, Miller, Metzger & Borkovec, 1990) and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley, 1988), in addition to The State Shame and Guilt Scale (Marschall, Sanftner & Tangney, 1994). The results of exploratory factor analysis indicated that the 10-item version of the State Shame and Guilt Scale has a two-factor structure in Iranian culture. The internal consistency of the scale was desirable and Cronbach's alpha was equaled to 0.91. The significant positive correlation between the scores of the State Shame and Guilt Scale and the scores of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (0.33) indicated a desired convergent validity, and the significant negative correlation between the scores of the State Shame and Guilt Scale and the scores of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (-0.30) indicated an optimal divergent validity (p<0/001). Based on the findings, it can be said that the Persian version of the State Shame and Guilt Scale, as a tool in accordance with the original version, can help experts in assessing the shame and guilt states.