How do I choose an instrument?
Look for one already validated in a population like yours, and report its reliability from your own sample rather than only from the original paper. Inventing your own measure is possible and requires you to argue for its validity, which is a much larger job than students expect.
This comes up on Psychology Research Methods, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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