Psychiatry Investig.  2015 Jul;12(3):295-304. 10.4306/pi.2015.12.3.295.

Reliability and Validity of the Korean Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form-3 in Medical Students

• Lee SJ
• Choi YH
• Rim HD
• Won SH
• Lee DW

• KMID: 2316488
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4306/pi.2015.12.3.295

Abstract

OBJECTIVE
The Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ) is a self-report measure of early maladaptive schemas and is currently in its third revision; it is available in both long (YSQ-L3) and short (YSQ-S3) forms. The goal of this study was to develop a Korean version of the YSQ-S3 and establish its psychometric properties in a Korean sample.
METHODS
A total of 542 graduate medical students completed the Korean version of the YSQ-S3 and several other psychological scales. A subsample of 308 subjects completed the Korean YSQ-S3 both before and after a 2-year test-retest interval. Correlation, regression, and confirmatory factor analyses were performed on the data.
RESULTS
The internal consistency of the 90-item Korean YSQ-S3 was 0.97 and that of each schema was acceptable, with Cronbach's alphas ranging from 0.59 to 0.90. The test-retest reliability ranged from 0.46 to 0.65. Every schema showed robust positive correlations with most psychological measures. The confirmatory factor analysis for the 18-factor structure originally proposed by Young, Klosko, and Weishaar (2003) showed that most goodness-of-fit statistics were indicative of a satisfactory fit.
CONCLUSION
These findings support the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the YSQ-S3.

Keyword

Young schema questionnaire; Short form; Reliability; Validity; Schema

MeSH Terms

Humans
Psychometrics
Surveys and Questionnaires
Reproducibility of Results*
Students, Medical*
Weights and Measures