en روانسنجي Psychometric پژوهشي Original Research Article <strong>Objective</strong>: This study aimed at evaluating the factor validity of the Kearny school refusal assessment scale-revised: parent version among parents of school students in Urmia City, Iran.<br> <strong>Methods</strong>: The study population comprised students in the first, second, and third grades of elementary schools in Urmia (N=18750). Of them, 351 students from 5 schools were selected using a multistage cluster sampling method. Then, They responded to the Kearny school refusal assessment scale-revised: parent version. To assess the construct validity of this scale, confirmatory factor analysis and internal consistency were used.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Results</strong>: The goodness of fit index of the confirmatory factor analysis model indicated a relatively good fit of the data with factor structure of the school refusal assessment scale-revised and confirming the existence of four characters of school stimulus, evaluative situations, seeking caregivers&rsquo; attention, and tangible reinforcements, as school refusal characters. Also, the Cronbach alpha coefficient values indicate the stability of the measurement of the whole scale as well as its subscales.<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: Based on these results, the school refusal scale has good statistic characters and the 4-factor mentioned model has good construct validity and help clinicians to determine the symptoms and causes of school refusal behavior. School refusal, Confirmatory factor analysis, Internal consistency 123 132 http://jpcp.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-194-4&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Khoshdavi Ebrahimzadeh ebrahimzade113@gmail.com 0000-0002-2385-694X No Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran. Farhad Ghadiri Sourman Abadi farhadghadiri17@yahoo.com 0000-0002-1884-4899 Yes Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran. Soraya Anvari Anbi farhadghadiri63@gmail.com No Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Azad University of Urmia, Urmia, Iran. Karim Abdolmohamadi karim.abdolmohamadi@yahoo.com No Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.