Atie Arab Mohebi Shahrabi - Department of Psychology, School of Education and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Fereshte sadat Mortazavi Nasiri - Department of Psychology, School of Education and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Shahla Pakdaman - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Education and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
Seyed Mohammad Sadatian - Department of Psychology, School of Education and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
Fateme Sadat Madani - Department of Psychology, School of Education and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

AbstractIntroduction: The present study was carried out with the aim of investigating the reliability, validity, and standardization of social reward questionnaire (SRQ) in Iranian youth. Method: This is a descriptive (correlative) study for which ۴۱۹ youth of ۱۸ to ۳۶ years responded to SRQ. The data was studied using exploratory factor analysis, Cronbach’s Alpha and Pearson correlation coefficient.  Result: The analysis of exploratory data showed that ۱۸ items of SQR have been loaded on four factors of "acceptance", "prosocial interactions", "sexual/abusive relations" and "negative social potency." The Cronbach’s Alpha coefficients obtained for the four items stood at ۰.۷۵, ۰.۶۷, ۰.۶۱ and ۰.۳۸, respectively.Conclusion: The results of the present study confirm the stability of factor structure and validity of social reward questionnaire for measuring this concept in Iranian youth.

Reward, Factor analysis, Validation Studies, Reproducibility of results