It was supposed that physical and psychological disabilities of older parents would act as stressor on supporter. The purpose of this study was to develop toward supporter stress on the Korean adult children. The Scale was using Likert Scale and 16 it...
It was supposed that physical and psychological disabilities of older parents would act as stressor on supporter. The purpose of this study was to develop toward supporter stress on the Korean adult children. The Scale was using Likert Scale and 16 items selected on t-test and item-total correlations. Analysis of scale that was indicated high reliability(α=.92) and that was emphasized validation with compared to Radloff(1977) of CES-D(Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression) Scale (r=.4893, P<.001), The result of this study might be useful for supporting act and older parents-adult children relationship involving dependency and care. Further development of the Supporter Stress Scale ( S. S. S. ) is being undertaken for predicting specific supporter at risk.