Translation and Validation of Personal Growth Initiative Scale-II for Pakistani Adults
| Autor: | Irum Naqvi, Sadia Zaman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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business.industry
05 social sciences Applied psychology Construct validity 050109 social psychology Sample (statistics) language.human_language Exploratory factor analysis Personal development 050106 general psychology & cognitive sciences Scale (social sciences) language 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Urdu business Construct (philosophy) Psychology General Psychology Reliability (statistics) |
| Zdroj: | 2020, VOL. 35, NO. 4. 35:657-674 |
| ISSN: | 2663-208X 1016-0604 |
| DOI: | 10.33824/pjpr.2020.35.4.35 |
| Popis: | Personal growth initiative is a person's active and intentional involvement in changing and developing as a person. Personal Growth Initiative Scale-II (PGIS-II; Robitschek et al., 2012) provides evidence of multidimensionality of construct of personal growth. Present research was accomplished in three phases with aim to translate and validate PGIS-II in Urdu. Phase 1 addressed the translation of measure through forward-backward translation method. To establish the cross-language validity, translated and the English version was administered on bilingual university students (N = 100). Reliability of both versions was determined by computing test-retest technique with 15 days interval. Phase-2 was aimed to establish the construct validity by carrying out. Exploratory Factor Analysis on adult women (N = 300) with age range of 21 to 52 years. Results showed four factors namely, Planfulness, Readiness for Change, Intentional Behavior, and Using Resources are reflection of personal growth initiative. Phase-3 of the research was aimed to confirm the factorial validity on sample of women (N = 300) with age range from 19 to 50 years. Findings confirmed four factor solutions and suggested that PGIS-II Urdu version can be utilized as a valid and reliable measure for the assessment of personal growth initiative among adults in Pakistan. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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