Developing and validation of the procrastination in prayer scale (PPS)
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محمدرضا اسدی یونسی
1
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مرتضی پردل
2
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سید علیرضا قاسمی
3
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Abstract :
Establishing prayer,while communicating with God,creates positive psychological and physical effects in the praying person.Despite these valuable physical and psychological effects of prayer for humans,it is frequently observed that many people of different ages,from childhood to adulthood,neglect and lack the necessary seriousness in establishing and performing prayer.Due to the fact that the method of measuring a construct such as procrastination in prayer plays an important role in the results of researches surrounding it and consequently the intervention applications resulting from it, and so far,no scale for this construct has been constructed and validated,the present study aims to construct and validate a scale There was general negligence in prayer.The method of the current research was descriptive and tool construction and was done in four stages including gathering and determining issues or sources of procrastination,testing the questionnaire to determine the validity(CVI),checking and selecting the questions of the questionnaire and validating the final form of the questionnaire.Overall,the research results showed that the total score has a high internal consistency(0.89).Also,the results of the factor analysis showed that the constructed scale consists of 5factors that explain63.03%of the total variance. Among these, the first factor with a specific value of7.193, about29.97%of the total variance,the second factor with a specific value of3.116,about12.98% of the total variance and the fifth factor with a specific value of1.156,about4.81%of the total variance of the variables are justified.Therefore, according to the results of this research,the general scale of procrastination in prayer has good validity and can be used to conduct extensive related research.
