Psychometric evaluation of the Persian version of Adolescent Shame‐Proneness Scale

• Published in: Psychology in the schools 2022-11, Vol.59 (11), p.2127-2143
• Main Authors: Hashemi Golpayegani, Fatemeh, Hosseinian, Simin, Rezaeian, Hamid, Pourshahriari, Mahsima, Rasouli, Roya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: adolescent shame‐proneness scale; Adolescents; Attribution; Clinical research; Confirmatory factor analysis; Discomfort; Emotional Response; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Goodness of fit; Guilt; High School Students; Prone; Psychological Patterns; Psychological problems; psychometric properties; Psychometrics; Quantitative psychology; Reliability; Secondary schools; Self evaluation; Shame; Teenagers; Test Validity; validation
• ISSN: 0033-3085; 1520-6807
• DOI: 10.1002/pits.22737

Shame is a significant factor for psychological problems in adolescents. The present study aims to assess the Persian version of the Adolescent Shame‐Proneness Scale (ASPS) among Iranian adolescents. Participants of this correlation study were 2291 high school students aged 12–18 (1296 girls and 1036 boys), selected through a multistage random cluster sampling method. The results indicated that the ASPS has adequate validity and reliability. Assessment of model fit using confirmatory factor analysis revealed satisfactory goodness of fit indices. Similar to the original version of ASPS, a three correlated factor model was confirmed in the present sample, and girls scored higher on all three subscales of ASPS. This scale can be a reliable and flexible instrument for measuring the significant emotion of shame in Iranian adolescents in research and clinical settings and can help expand the shame literature. Practitioner points (1) The Persian version of the Adolescent Shame‐Proneness Scale (ASPS) is a reliable scale for researchers and therapists to expand the shame literature in Iran and has cross‐cultural utility. (2) Girls scored higher than boys on all three subscales of ASPS, “Negative Self‐Evaluation,” “Emotional Discomfort,” and “Externalization.” (3) Shame and guilt differ despite overlap because shame is associated with negative self‐evaluation in general attributions, whereas guilt is characterized by a specific behavior.