An Investigation of Psychometric Properties of Wisdom Assessment Scale for Students

Abstract

Background and Purpose: Strengthening the wisdom alongside the intelligence is essential for students' spiritual and scientific progress. Accordingly, the behavioral indicators and the level of wisdom of students should be measured with a valid and reliable tool in accordance with the Islamic culture. This study aims to investigate the psychometric properties of the wisdom assessment scale for adolescent students, constructed by Salmaniardani, Shahriariahmadi, and Davaee. Method: This research was an applied-developmental and a descriptive-survey study in the method of gathering the data. The study population included all the high-IQ students and average-IQ students of the first cycle of the secondary school in Isfahan in the academic year 2018-2019. Cluster random sampling was used and 400 students were individually tested by the questionnaire for measuring the wisdom. Data were analyzed by SPSS and AMOS software using correlation coefficient and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: The results of factor analysis showed that the eight factors of general wisdom, religious wisdom, emotional wisdom, human wisdom, spiritual wisdom, moral wisdom, social wisdom, and scientific wisdom with eigenvalues higher than one explained 71.49% of the variance of items. The results of the first-order confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model fit index was optimal. The reliability of the questionnaire calculated by Cronbach's alpha was 0.895. Conclusion:The coordination between the factors and the total score is acceptable and the model fit index is optimal, indicating the adequacy of the questionnaire.