Construction and Validation of “National Scale of Students Life Profile”: A Preliminary Study

Student life is a very different and highly challenged course. Specially, the beginning of student life is often associated with enormous psychological pressure, such as isolation from family and living independently, finding part-time jobs and dealing with various mental problems. This study has aimed to construct and validate a national student life scale for drawing students' lives’ profile. In order to build the national Portrait of student life scale profile some international and national scales and questionnaire were examined and the scale with 95 questions was conducted on the population of 70 students. After screening the data and fixing errors,an exploratory factor analysis was conducted on a sample of 1,200 students, based on the theoretical models. The prepared questionnaire consists of seven main parts based on theory. Factor analysis was conducted for sections attitudes, satisfaction and concerns, emotions and high risk behaviors, and in each of the aforementioned sections respectively 3, 2, 2 and 5 factors were extracted which were congruent with the theoretical model. Totally it can be said that an early version of the national student life scale profile has had good psychometric properties and can be used in researches related to the students and young people.