Construction and validation of the Social Dialogue Concept Questionnaire Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis methods

Alizade Aghdam, Mohammad Bagher; Aghayari Hir, Tavakkol; Delavarghavam, Zahra

doi:10.30465/scs.2025.50938.2964

Construction and validation of the Social Dialogue Concept Questionnaire Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis methods

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Authors

Mohammad Bagher Alizade Aghdam ¹

Tavakkol Aghayari Hir ¹

Zahra Delavarghavam ²

¹ Department of Social Sciences, University of Tabriz

² Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tabriz University

10.30465/scs.2025.50938.2964

Abstract

Abstract: Social dialogue can be described as one of the main manifestations of democracy in a society, but the meaning that this important social concept carries with it is something beyond the exchange of opinions, and that is the "effectiveness of social dialogue" or, in other words, the degree of its "impact". In the following article, the concept of social dialogue has been measured in the mutual relationship (or correlation) of two specific areas. Therefore, an attempt has been made to measure the conceptual space of the term social dialogue in the two dimensions of "private sphere" and "public sphere" according to the theory of Jürgen Habermas, using appropriate terms. The statistical population of the research is the citizens of Ardabil city and the sampling method is stratified. To examine the Validity of the items in measuring the concept, first the principal component analysis method and then the first-order confirmatory factor analysis were performed. The results of the estimates using these two methods indicate that 17 items out of 22 items are suitable for measuring the constructs. The RMSEA of the structural model of the concept is also 0.092.

Keywords

Construction

validation

social dialogue

principal component analysis

first order confirmatory factor analysis