Validation of Multi-Measure-Agentic-Personality-Scale in Iranian Students

Introduction: Agentic personality is defined as having a sense of responsibility in one's life. The belief that the person has control over their life decisions and is responsible for their consequences. The senseing of self-efficacy that one's is being able to overcome obstacles that hinder progress throughout life. This study investigates the psychometric properties of the Multi-Measure Agentic Personality Scale (MAPS) among Iranian students. Methods: This was a descriptive and instrumental study. This study population was students of Tehran universities in the school year of 2018-2019. From six hundred thirty-three undergraduate students were selected by multistage random sampling method. Then the research tools such as Multi-Measure Agentic Personality Scale (MAPS), Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status II (EOM-EIS-II), Moral Competency Inventory (MCI), the Social Capital Measurement Questionnaire and Psychological Capital Intervention (PCI) were applied. The second-order confirmatory factor analysis and LISREL software were used to evaluate the factor structure of the scale. Also, convergent and divergent validity of the scale was assessed by Pearson correlation coefficient and SPSS24. Results: The findings showed that the factor structure of the Iranian sample fits well with the factor structure of the Canadian one(Côté, 1997). In addition, the correlation coefficients of the MAPS with other scales confirmed the convergent and divergent validity. Cronbach's alpha coefficients also showed a good internal consistency of the MAPS. Conclusions: Analyzes showed that the Iranian version of the Multi-Measure Agentic Personality Scale (MAPS) could be used in studies measuring agentic personality.