Study of Feasibility, Validity, Reliability, and Norm-Finding of Scale of Social Styles in Employees of Tehran Regional Electricity Company

Zeinab Amini Moghaddam, Alireza Dehkhodania

Abstract

In this study, the feasibility, validity, reliability, and normality of social style scales are investigated among the employees of Regional Electricity Company of Tehran. In this exploratory study, a descriptive method was used. The sample size was 350 people (194 males and 156 females), which were selected using a random sampling method. The social style scale pointed based on a 4-point Likert scale containing 30 items. The reliability of the questionnaire was determined using Cronbach's alpha and no item was excluded from the questionnaire. To test the construct validity of the instrument, the principal component analysis (PCA) method was used. To test the structure of the scale of derived factors, the Bartlett test was used by means of tilt rotation and 6 factors were derived including driving, expressive, analytical, amiable, compassion, and lawful.


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