Psychometrics of Life Skills Ability Questionnaire in Veterans and Disabled Athletes of Alborz Province

The aim of this research was psychometrics evaluation of life skills ability questionnaire in veterans and disabled athletes of Alborz province. The statistical population of this research was made up of the veterans and disabled athletes of Alborz province, from whom 469 questionnaires were collected using available sampling. In order to collect data from Lorcan et al (2021) life skills ability questionnaire, which consists of 43 questions and has the components of teamwork, goal setting, time management, emotional skills, interpersonal communication, social skills, leadership and Problem solving is used. In order to analyze the data, descriptive indices and Cronbach's and Raykov's alpha coefficient statistical tests were used to determine internal consistency and exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used to determine construct validity in SPSS, LISREL and Stata statistical software. The results showed that the reliability of the life skills ability questionnaire is (0.933). Regarding construct validity and based on the degree of relationships and significance level, all the questions had a significant relationship with the factors and were able to be a good predictor for their component. Also, regarding the relationships of the components with the concept of ability of life skills, the results showed that all eight components could be a good predictor for the concept of ability of life skills. The internal and external validity of the model was confirmed.