Development and psychometric evaluation of the Hindi version of adolescents’ Self-disclosure Scale

Pages: 1754-1756
Sweta Pathak (Department of Psychology, TNB College Tilkamajhi Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur, Bihar)
Shubhra Sinha (Department of Psychology, VKM Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

The present paper reports the development and psychometric properties of the Hindi version of the newly developed self-disclosure scale for adolescents’. Qualitative interview schedule was developed and administered on 50 parents (both father & mother) and 50 adolescents (both boys & girls). Initially 46 items (for 7 domains i.e., like/ dislikes, studies/ career, money, friendship, physical changes, personality & attitude/opinion) were written and on the basis of reliability analysis, some psychometrically poor items were deleted, and only 29 items were included in final scale. After that, through Factor analysis, 18 items were retained and classified in two components, named as Personal self-disclosure and Relational Self-disclosure. The psychometric properties of the Self-disclosure scale were evaluated on a sample of 300 participants. Item analysis of the scale revealed that some items were psychometrically adequate and retained in final scale, whereas psychometrically poor items were removed from final scale. However, the reliability of the scale was found to be highly satisfactory for both components of self-disclosure (alpha = .84 for relational self-disclosure & 0.60 for personal self-disclosure). Overall, the findings revealed that this newly developed self-disclosure scale is a reliable and valid tool to measure the level of adolescents’ self-disclosure with their parents.