The purpose of this study was to test the validity and the reliability of the Obesity Adjustment Survey Short Form(Butler et al, 1999) for measuring intensely obese domestic high school student's psychological adjustment and worry levels. The subjects...
The purpose of this study was to test the validity and the reliability of the Obesity Adjustment Survey Short Form(Butler et al, 1999) for measuring intensely obese domestic high school student's psychological adjustment and worry levels. The subjects participated in this study were 84 intensely obese high school students who were taken care of by the Health Management Association in Pusan. 33 students of these participated the test-retest analysis to enhance reliability. We obtained the following results.
1) The test for item analysis, content validity and face validity showed that the item 5 and 9 were out of the normal range in kurtosis, and we supposed that the culture difference of between the foreign and the domestic which they involve should be the reason of this result. So, we decided to eliminate them from the questionnaire.
2) A convergent validity analysis showed that the item-total correlation was very highly (p<.001) over all items.
3) Normal score were identified by the Shapiro Wilk test(W : Normal value = 0.931), and this suggests that these collected data are useful for various statistical methods.
4) We used the Cronbach's alpha value to identify the reliability and the internal consistency of the questionnaire. The Cronbach's alpha value was significantly high level(α=0.91). And then the test-retest analysis indicated statistically significant(p<.05) correlation between pre and post response.