J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs JKAPMHN Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 1225-8482 2288-4653 The Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 10.12934/jkpmhn.2011.20.4.395 Original Article Validation of Addictive Personality Scale for Screening Adolescents Park Hyun Sook 1 Jung Sun Young 2 Professor, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea. Part-time Lecturer, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea. Address reprint requests to: Jung, Sun Young, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, 3056-6 Daemyeong 4-dong, Nam-gu, Daegu 705-718, Korea. Tel: 82-10-8952-1646, Fax: 82-53-650-4392, jungsy@cu.ac.kr 12 2011 31 12 2011 20 4 395 403 31 10 2011 10 12 2011 10 12 2011 © 2011 The Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2011 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Purpose

The purpose of this study was to examine reliability and validity of the Eysenck personality questionnaire which is a well-known measure for risk of addictive personality, and to suggest criteria for screening the adolescent addictive personality.

 Methods

The participants were 988 adolescents from four middle schools and four high schools. Reliability, sensitivity and specificity in the ROC curve, and validity were used to analyze the data.

 Results

The internal consistency reliability of the addictive personality scale was .88. There were statistically significant correlations among addictive personality, self-control, and addictive behaviors, which indicate the scale has validity. Also the cutoff of classification of addictive personality in adolescents was indicated by the ROC curve.

 Conclusion

The above findings indicate that the addictive personality scale has good validity, reliability, cutoff for screening when used with adolescents.

 Adolescent Addictive Personality National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-11-0014636

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (NRF-11-0014636).

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†Scheffé multiple comparison test.

 Sensitivity and Specificity according to ROC Curve (N=988)

ROC=receiver operating characteristic; AP=addictive personality; AUC=area under curve.

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†Scheffé multiple comparison test.