Development and validation of social communication skills assessment tools for students of Amin University of Law Enforcement Sciences

Habibzadeh, Ashab; Abdolrahmani, Reza; Einhpour, Javad

doi:10.22054/qjsd.2022.62179.2208

Development and validation of social communication skills assessment tools for students of Amin University of Law Enforcement Sciences

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

ashab habibzadeh ¹

reza abdolrahmani ¹

Javad einhpour ²

¹ Associate Professor and Member of the Department of Social Sciences, Amin University of Law Enforcement Sciences

² Assistant Professor of Psychology Amin University of Law Enforcement Sciences

https://doi.org/10.22054/qjsd.2022.62179.2208

Abstract

Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to construct and validate a questionnaire to assess the social communication skills of students of Amin University of Law Enforcement Sciences. The present study is of applied-developmental type and in terms of quantitative methods of data collection is descriptive-survey type. In order to obtain formal validity, CVR and CVI indices were estimated using experts. The reliability of the questionnaire was assessed using the internal consistency method. The population of the present study was all undergraduate and graduate students approved by Amin University of Law Enforcement Sciences, from which they were selected by relative class sampling method (397 people). The results of factor analysis of confirmatory data in the form of measurement model after providing all the assumptions showed that out of 195 items identified for social communication skills, 131 items were correlated with their components (9 components) and were approved as the final questions of the questionnaire. Were located. This study showed that the social communication skills questionnaire with appropriate validity and reliability coefficients is a suitable tool for measuring students' social communication skills and can be used to standardize it in students.
Validation, communication skills model, personal communication, intra-organizational skills, extra-organizational skills.

Keywords

Validation

communication skills model

personal communication

intra-organizational skills

extra-organizational skills

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