Construct and Questionnaire Validation of Tendency toward Democratic Values Measurement among Citizens

One of the mostly applied concept in the field of social and political science is the concept of democratic values toward which has not been designed for any comprehensive valid and reliable questionnaire in Iran yet. Considering this fact design and validity, evaluation of valid questionnaire to measure social variables has also been one of the major challenges of social explanation of how to design a comprehensive questionnaire in the field of individual tendency measurement toward democratic values as well as pointing the efforts made in this respect. This article has collected all options and items together as well as eliminated criticizable ones which have not been used properly. The normative data and validation have been done for the research related to 600 people as sample size in Urmiye city as one of the multiethnic higous and multiethnic cities of Iran. At this research democratic values have been collected through three overall categories consisting of “freedom” (including individual freedom, group freedom, medias’ freedom), “tolerance” (including of individual tolerance, social tolerance, political tolerance, gender tolerance, religious tolerance and ethic tolerance), and participation (including of individual participation and group participation). Validity of questionnaire has been confirmed by the sociology professors and finally alpha of cornbach test applied of variable, dimension of related item.