Development and Validation of Post-Divorced Personal Experiences of Women Scale

Abstract

Divorce, which ends the marital association, is defined as the dissolution of a marriage allowing them to remarry someone else (Christopher, 1999). Divorce does not occur quickly. There are various stressors that people experience during the pre-divorce period that badly affect the mental and physical health of adults as well as offspring. At the end, some persons experience short-term or long-term stress according to their situations. Numerous studies disclose divorce as a traumatic experience revealing the social, emotional and mental vulnerability of the divorced females. The present study aimed at developing reliable and valid measure of post-divorced personal experiences of women. The research has three studies: Query study the researcher developed an item pool of 50 items based on previous literature, interviews, of divorce women and expert opinion. The item pool was administered to a purposive sample of 250 divorced women with children. As a outcome of exploratory factor analysis demonstrated three-dimensional factor solution. Confirmatory factor analysis established the obtained three-dimensional factor solution in study II of the study with an excellent model ft. All the fit indices yielded acceptable range. The values of factor loading and Cronbach alpha reliability confirmed the internal consistency and psychometric properties of post divorced personal experiences of women. This scales would be helpful to measure the post-divorced personal experiences of women. The limitation of the study along with suggestions and implications were also discussed.