Translation And Adaptation Of Satisfaction With Life Scale-Children, Trait Emotional Intelligence Scale- Child Short Form And Brief Cope

Abstract

Objective: The present study was designed to translate and culturally adapt psychometric instruments to foster mental health of children in Pakistan.

Design: Test development.

Place and duration of study: Karachi, Pakistan, from January to July, 2015.

Subject and Method: Three scales were selected for Urdu translation and adaptation; Satisfaction with Life Scale – Child (SWLS-C), Trait Emotional Intelligence Scale-Child Short Form (TEIQue-CSF) and Brief COPE. The standard back translation process was carried out to draft Urdu version of the scales. Cross language validation was conducted on a non-probabilistic sample of 80 students with age ranging from 10 to 12 years.

Results and Conclusion: Correlation between English and Urdu version of scale turned out to be significant for all three scales, i.e. SWLS-C, TEIQue-CSF and Brief COPE subscales (Internal consistency analyses and temporal reliability analyses were performed on 60 students and 52 students, respectively. The mean age of sample was 10.02 years. For SWLS-C, Cronbach’s alpha was 0.78 and split half reliability was also 0.78. Test retest reliability was undertaken at one week interval which was reported to be 0.79. With reference to TEIQue-CSF, Cronbach’s alpha and split half reliability turned out to be substantial. Value obtained for temporal reliability was 0.84 with one week interval. Internal consistency values for the subscales of Brief COPE ranged between 0.60 and 0.95. Temporal reliability of the Brief COPE subscales varied from 0.51 to 0.83. Thus, the overall results corroborate the appropriateness of the Urdu adaptation of SWLS-C, TEIQue-CSF and Brief COPE with Pakistani children.