Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire (PFQ): Reliability, Validity and Factor Structure in Iranian Society

Abstract

This article was conducted to indicate the reliability, validity, and factor structure of the Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire (PFQ) in the Iranian population. Methods: All students of the Faculty of Humanities of Tehran University of Science and Culture were the research population in this standardization study. In this study, 250 students of the faculty participated voluntarily by a convenience sampling method. In addition, they were evaluated at one stage of the test. Then, the PFQ-20¬ questionnaire completed Scherrer self-efficacy and NEO test openness subscale. One hundred ninety-five subjects were finally entered into the data analysis. Results: The internal stability validity was estimated to calculate the simultaneous validity by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.713) and split-half coefficients as modified correlation (0.748). The mentioned data generally indicated high internal stability. The correlation between the two Scherer general self-efficacy questionnaires and the
NEO test openness subscale was calculated to assess the validity of the PFQ-20 questionnaire. It was respectively 0.505 and 0.667 which was significant. The factor analysis method was used to evaluate the construct validity of the questionnaire. The PFQ-20 questionnaire was saturated with five factors that have a high correlation with each other based on characteristics obtained through the ML method. The high correlation of these five factors shows the convergence of these factors that meet the objectives of the PFQ-20 questionnaire. Discussion and Conclusion: study result, to measure the degree of psychological resilience in this population, the PFQ-20 questionnaire can be generally
used as a valid test.