A Study on Practicability, Reliability, Validity and Normalization of Moslow's Test of Psychological Security on the Students of Payame Noor University of West Azarbayjan Province

Psychological security is one of essential needs of human begin and many researchers have been done on it so far. Mental security brings relaxation and lack of relaxation causes neurotic behavior and mental disorders. As a humanist psychologist, Maslow designed the test of psychological security to measure this need. This test could be used to find out excitement disorders and psychological insecurity and also identity those students who are vulnerable to mental disorders, and finding the factors that are threatening their psychological health to prevent future mental illnesses. Concerning the fact that students are facing torrent issues and problems in different issues and problems in different aspects such as psychological security and health, this test was applied to Payame Nour University of West Azarbayjan province. Data analysis and based on the results that were inferred by factor analysis and the analysis of original components it became clear that from 71 questions 15 factors were found out and it showed 40.45% of the overall variance. All the questions of the questionnaire had factorial load of 0.30. Some of these factors are environmental incompatibility, inferiority complex, paranoia and distrust, self-belief and selfassurance, irritability and depression, feeling of happiness, social security and inferiority complex. Finally percentage and categorical norms were written. Since the test has enough reliability and it’s including factors were introduced and by having mentioned norms (percentage and categorical norms), and the needed time for completing the test that is 15 minutes, this test could be used is different situations to identify problems and study psychological security of the students in consultation centers.