Psychometric properties of adult separation anxiety disorder questionnaire in students

Author
mehri mowlaie
university of mohaghegh ardabili
10.52547/rph.12.1.102
Abstract
Separation anxiety disorder has high prevalence and lead to demolishing effects on quality of life, the aim of the present research was to examine the confirmatory factor analysis of adult separation anxiety disorder questionnaire in Iranian university students. Among three hundred and ten students, 180 males and 130 females were selected by convenient sampling method and responded to adult separation anxiety disorder questionnaire and depression, anxiety and stress scale. The results of the present research showed that factor analysis using principle component method lead to extract 5 factors of ASA-27. Factors included: separation anxiety, worry about significant others, sleep disturbances, talking a lot, worry about hurting significant others. Reliability of the questionnaire via Cronbach's alpha was 0/88 and correlations between scores of test-retest were 0/64 that indicates high reliability. The result of the present research showed that Persian version of adult separation anxiety disorder and its 5 subscales has desirable reliability in university samples and is appropriate tool for screening this disorder.


Keywords
Adult separation anxiety disorder
Factor analysis
Validity
Reliability
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