Reliability and Validity of PWI (Psychosocial Wellbeing Index).
- Author:
Chae Yong LEE
;
Jong Young LEE
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
PWl;
stress;
reliability;
exploratory factor analysis;
confirmatory factory analysis
- MeSH:
Axis, Cervical Vertebra;
Humans;
Surveys and Questionnaires;
Reproducibility of Results*
- From:Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine
1996;29(2):255-264
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
To study reliability and validity of PWl, this newly developed self-administered questionnaire which measures stress, was given to medial students. All respondent(133) were followed 4 weeks later and 92 were retested. Cronbach's a coefficient of data was 0.93. Test-retest reliability measured by pearson's correlation coefficient was 0.72(p<0.01l). Exploratory factor analysis(EFA) performed by principal axis factor method without iteration and by varimax rotation explored 13 principal components(eigenvalues > l). After exploring 4 factor structure according to previous study results, factor 1 showed good agreement but other factors did not. Confirmatory factor analysis(CFA) showed poor fit of 4 factor model to data. In the further study, it may be considered to model that has unidimensional factor structure.
