Validation of the Social Well-being Scale in the Iranian old people groups Download PDF

Objectives: Aim of this study was to assess factorial structure of Social Well-being Scale (SWBS) questionnaire. Material and method: AMOS 18 was used to assess the construct validity of SWBS questionnaire and maximum likelihood method was used to estimate the parameter. Internal consistency was tested to measure the reliability of SWBS questionnaire Results: The original model displays a poor fit (x2/ df= 4.001, CFI = 0.88, GFI = 0.86, and RMSEA =0.87. Six items with low factor loading were removed to improve the fitness of model. The results of confirmatory analysis of SWBS questionnaire revealed acceptable fitness of modified model (CFI = 0.91, GFI = 0.07 and x2/ df= 3.36). The value of alpha reliability coefficient was 0.64 % for ‘social prosperity, 0.33% for ‘social adaptation’ factor, 71 % for ‘social cohesion" factor, 0.70% for ‘social acceptance’ factor, 0.92 % for ‘social participation. Conclusion: Although three of five subscales had an Alpha less than the criterion value and also six low factor loadings were deleted, this work is meaningful and it can be considered as the first step to estimate the validity and reliability of social well-being questionnaire.