Designing The Prolonged Grief Scale for Children

Abstract

The current study aimed to prepare a measure of prolonged grief for children, and to know its factorial structure. To achieve the goal of the study, the measure was prepared and applied to a sample consisting of children without a father aged (12-6) years registered with the Insan Society in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and their number is (n= 120), and the scale was applied to the sample for the purpose of conducting exploratory factor analysis and extracting psychometric properties. The study concluded that the Prolonged grief Scale for Children consists of one factor, The results also revealed that all items of the Prolonged grief Scale for Children have a high correlation coefficient that is statistically significant at the level of significance (p <.01), as well as a good reliability coefficient of (α > .885). Considering the results, the study presented several recommendations, the most prominent of which are: revalidation of the factorial structure of the Prolonged Grief Scale for Children using confirmatory factor analysis and applying it to different samples in other countries.