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KMID : 0389520030100010039
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Sleep Medicine.Psychophysiology
2003 Volume.10 No. 1 p.39 ~ p.51
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Standardization and Reliability and Validity of the Korean Edition of Profile of Mood States(K-POMS)
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Kim Eui-Joong
Lee Sang-Ick
Jeong Do-Un
Shin Min-Sup
Yoon In-Young
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Abstract
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Objectives: The Profile of Mood States (POMS) has been used broadly and frequently in various medical studies with various subjects. For the development and application of the Korean edition of POMS, called K-POMS, we translated POMS into Korean and then evaluated the reliability and validity of K?POMS.
Methods: The subjects were 161 male students with a mean age of 18.1 years (1&30) and 244 female students with a mean age of 16.6 years (14?23). They were requested to perform K?POMS and SCL?90?R (Korean version) at the same time. Means, reliability coefficients, and test?retest correlations of K?POMS were calculated. Content validities, correlations with SCL?90?R, and discrimination validities in comparison with 76 depressive patients were obtained, anddctor analyses were carried out.
Results: Mean scores of Total Mood Disturbance (TMD) and some subscales (T, F, C, V factor) showed a significant difference between male and female students. The intemal consistency ⓒefficient (a) of the total 65 items was 0.93, and ranged from 0.67 to 0.90 for subscales. Test?retest correlations of 43 subjects ranged from 0.27 to 0.63. Seven psychiatrists rated the pi sperness of the content of each item as more than moderate degree krean scale points=2.66, in the range of 0 to 4). Every subs:ale of FE POMS exhibited significant correlation with the matching subscale of SCL?90?R. Mean scores of K?POMS of the total 405 subjects were significantly different from those of the 76 depressivesubjects after age correction. Six factors were extracted accounting for 51.2% of total variance. Factor 6 consisted of 6 items which came from various subscales of POMS and represented "uncertainty and helplessness," which may be somewhat different to dgoression or sadness proper.
Conclusion: The validity and reliability of K?POMS could be confirmed. The significant difference in K-POMS scores between depressive subjects and normal subjects suggests that K?POMS can be used clinically for the evaluation and screening of depression. The main structure of K?POMS is very similar to that of POMS, except the Confusion-Bewilderment factor which shows weak factor consistency in K?POMS. This may reflect some emotional characteristic of Koreans such as an undifferetiated aspect of cognitive efficiency. The sixth factor newly extracted from K-POMS also may be indicative of an unique emotional aspect of young Koreans. Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology 2003: 10(1) : 39-51
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KEYWORD
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POMS, Korean edition, Factor analiability, Validity, Standardization,
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