Constructing and Validating Personality Measurement on the Basis of Saadi's Golestan

The current study is a descriptive and correlational study, it is aimed to construct and validate personality measurement on the basis of Saadi's Golestan. The number of 276 students Allame Tabatabayi University (137 girls and 139 boys) participated in this research. The 108-item questionnaire based on content analysis of personality traits which Saadi posed on the first chapter.Factor analysis was used by SPSS11.5 software to determine the number of factors of the questionnaire. The findings of the research was in line to answering research questions, it showed that cronbach,s alpha coefficient of the questionnaire denotes reliability and internal consistency of this questionnaire is high (α=’II) Validity of the questionnaire in the area of construct validity was suitable. Furthermore, thand e 63-item questionnaire with 5 subscales including social ripeness, affiliation seeking, time-saving, giving affection, generosity was gained finally through the exploratory factor analysis by varimax. In addition to, the results of research indicated that the questionnaire has an acceptable differential validity (diagnostic power) and it could distinguish the group referring counseling centers from healthy group. At one hand, regarding to independent-T-test, it was determined that there are no significant difference between girl and boy students’ scores on all subscales and total score except time -saving subscale. T and Z standardization and normalization tables were separately gained for time-saving subscale and generally for other subscales of researcher-made questionnaire with the factors of five factor questionnaire NEO-PI-R is relatively acceptable. Taking into account the confidence range for total score and each of subscales of the test, the cut point was gained.