Validating emotional self-disclosure questionnaire on Iranian students

The aim of current research was to investigate the factor Structure,divergent validity and reliability Of the Emotional Self-DisclosureScale (ESDS). By employing a correlational design and testvalidation, 500 people were selected among all married universitystudents of Bojnourd by employing multistage cluster sampling.They completed (ESDS). Investigating the validity was performed byemploying exploration and confirmatory factor analysis and alsodivergent validity and validating through internal consistency,Cronbach's alpha and double split method. The Emotional Self-Disclosure Scale (ESDS) consists of 8 subscales, each containing five(5) separate items. The labels and items for each of these subscalesare Depression, Happiness, Jealousy, Anxiety, Anger, Calmness,Apathy and Fear Each and every item is coded so that: A=0, B=1,C=2, D=3, and E=4. The five items on each subscale are thensummed, so that higher scores correspond to greater emotionaldisclosure for each type of emotion, as measured by the eightsubscales on the ESDS. Confirmatory factor analysis shows a goodfitness with 8 factor fundamental models and also one item from allsubscales was not meaning full loading factor except jealousy whichhas two meaningful items. In addition produce a high Cronbach'salpha and double split coefficient for sub variables and the wholescale score. Seven factor structure of (ESDS) can perform as a usefulscale in research and clinical settings because of its shortness,multidimensionality and having a good factor and divergentanalysis.

Validating emotional self-disclosure questionnaire on Iranian students Keywords:

The Emotional Self-Disclosure Scale , (ESDS) , Factor Structure , Divergent Validity , Reliability