Construct Validity Examination of Life Skills for Primary School Students in Iran

Doi:10.5901/mjss.2012.v3n11p167 Abstract: This study addressed the issue of assessing the psychology properties of the construct validity for the life skills instrument. The life skills instrument consists of 31 Likert-type items measuring ten skills in five areas, namely self-awareness and empathy, interpersonal relationship and communication, creative thinking and critical thinking, decision-making and problem solving, coping with stress and emotion. The study involves 215 primary school students in Iran. The findings showed that the Life skills have satisfactory construct validity with five factors extracted and confirmed by confirmatory factor analyses. The Cronbach’s alpha values are supported construct validity, which the results indicates high validity and reliability for the instrument to measure life skills