en عمومى General پژوهشي Research Article <strong>Introduction</strong>: Positive psychology, as a new domain of psychology, is focused on understanding and describing happiness and mental wellbeing and predicting their associated factors.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Objectives</strong>: The present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the virtue of courage scale and its relationship with social health and life quality among university students.<br> <strong>Materials and Methods</strong>: The research method was based on tool construction and development. The statistical population consisted of 10221 students of the Islamic Azad University of Sari Branch in the 2017-2018 academic year. Of whom, a sample of 384 subjects was selected. The required data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire of psychological courage regarding Islamic scholars &#39;views, the 26-item World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-26) questionnaire, and the Keyes Social Health Questionnaire. Nonparametric Spearman&#39;s rank-order correlation and multiple linear regression methods were used to determine the relationships between the items. The scale&#39;s content validity was assessed by the Content Validity Index (CVI) and Content Validity Ratio (CVR) indices based on Leo&#39;s Table. SPSS was used for data analysis.<br> <strong>Results</strong>: The obtained results suggested that the value of the first factor equaled 5.47; therefore, it was a significant factor in factor analysis. In total, 7 factors explained 60.10% of the variance. The correlation coefficients between the subscales and the total score of courage, quality of life, and social health scales indicated a proper concurrent validity of the courage scale. To investigate the validity of the 31-item scale, internal consistency (Cronbach&#39;s alpha coefficient) was calculated, ranging from 0.83 to 0.93.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: The psychometric properties of the psychological virtue of courage scale have been supported; thus, it could be used in future research studies. Additionally, there was a significant relationship between courage, quality of life, and social health in this inventory.&nbsp; Psychometrics, Courage, Virtues, Quality of life 45 52 http://ajnpp.umsha.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-182-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Leila Habib Allah Nataj habibnataj.leila@yahoo.com 10031947532846003771 10031947532846003771 No Department of Psychology, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran. Bahram Mirzaian bmirzaian@iausari.ac.ir 10031947532846003772 10031947532846003772 Yes Department of Psychology, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran. Mohsen Jadidi mjadidi2356@yahoo.com 10031947532846003773 10031947532846003773 No Department of Clinical Psychology, Bandar Gaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran.