Abstract:

Investigation of Validity and Reliability of Fathers’ Postnatal Sense of Security Scale Objective: The aim of the study is to investigate the validity and reliability of the Fathers' Postnatal Sense of Security Scale.Method: The samples of this methodological study consist of 130 fathers who have got 0 to 7-day-old infants for exploratory factor analysis and 65 fathers for confirmatory factor analysis. The data were analysed in SPSS 20 pocket programme and LİSREL 9.1. After the translation to Turkish of the scale, content and construct validity were made. The content validity index was calculated after experts’ views for content validity. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used for construct validity and the internal consistency and item analysis were used for reliability. Results and Conclusion: The content validity index was found as .98. Exploratory factor analysis, items were collected in four factors with eigen value over one. These four factors explained to 61.19% of total variance. The factor load ranged from .63-.78 in the factor analyses. Four factor structures were verified in the confirmatory factor analysis. Goodness of fit was found Chi-square=67.85, (p=0.201), degrees of freedom= 59, RMSEA= 0.048.Goodness of fit was good Item total correlations cores were changed from .63 to .78. Total Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the scale was detected as .74. The Fathers' Postnatal Sense of Security Scale may be suggested to be a valid and reliable scale to test the postnatal security senses of fathers

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