Validation of Addictive Personality Scale for Screening Adolescents

Hyun Sook Park; Sun Young Jung

doi:10.12934/jkpmhn.2011.20.4.395

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Park and Jung: Validation of Addictive Personality Scale for Screening Adolescents

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2011; 20(4): 395-403.

Published online: 31 December 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2011.20.4.395

Validation of Addictive Personality Scale for Screening Adolescents

Hyun Sook Park¹, Sun Young Jung²

¹Professor, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea.

²Part-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

Received 31 October 2011 Revised 10 December 2011 Accepted 10 December 2011

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Abstract

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.

Keywords: Adolescent, Addictive, Personality

Figures and Tables

Figure 1

ROC curve for group of addictive personality.

Table 1

Classification of Addictive Personality in Adolescents (N=988)

^†Scheffé multiple comparison test.

Table 2

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

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

Table 3

Correlation among Addictive Personality, Self-control, and Addictive Behavior (N=988)

Table 4

Degree of Addictive Behavior according to Groups (N=988)

^†Scheffé multiple comparison test.

Notes

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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