A Preliminary Study for the Development of a Korean Version of the Body Dysmormphic Disorder Examination-Self Report(BDDE-SR)

Kim, Jeong Lan; Chee, Ik Seung; Shin, Suk Chul

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The purposes of this study were to develop a Korean version of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Examination-Self Report (BDDE-SR)and to get informations about the body dissatisfaction of the Korean adolescents. METHOD: A Korean version of the BDDE-SR was applied to 417 Korean high school adolescents. Retest was conducted with 6-week interval in 100 adolescents.
RESULTS
1)Test-retest reliability of the total scores (Pearson's correlation coefficiency) was 0.883 (p<0.001)and test-retest reliabilities of each item also showed high correlation (Spearman's correlation coefficency range: 0.159-0.761) 2) Internal consistency by Cronbach's alpha of 0.922 (p<0.001)was very much high. 3) Five factors were extracted by factor analysis with the Varimax rotation. They were 'the distressing and embarrassment factor', 'the self-consciousness and negative self-evaluation factor', 'the avoidance factor', 'the camouflage factor', and 'the comparison factor'. 4)The total score of BDDE-SR of girls was statistically higher (52.4+/-24.8) than that of boys (37.7+/-20.6) The most dissatisfied body part was abdomen(6.8%) nose(6.4%) entire leg(6.0%) teeth (5.9%)and eyes(5.9%)in all the subjects.
CONCLUSION
These results indicate that a Korean version of the BDDE-SR is a reliable instrument for the assessment of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) The authors suggest that future researches should be directed to obtaining clinical data of the patients with BDD and should test the validity of a Korean version of the BDDE-SR.