The Korean version of the Multicultural Quality of Life Index (MQLI-Kr): development and validation.
Our research team of multilingual and multicultural members designed comprehensive, yet efficient, culture-informed, and self-rated Multicultural Quality of Life Indexes for both English-speaking individuals and for growing immigrant groups in the United States. A Korean version of the Multicultural Quality of Life Index (MQLI-Kr) was developed as part of this multilingual project. The team tested the MQLI-Kr on 130 Koreans (100 psychiatric patients and 30 professionals). MQLI-Kr was quite efficient and easy to use. The internal consistency attained a Cronbach's alpha of 0.97 for the combined sample. A factor analysis yielded one single factor, which accounted for 81.5% of the items' variance. The test-retest reliability correlation coefficient of the MQLI-Kr was 0.85. Significant differences in the mean MQLI-Kr scores were observed between the patients' group and the professionals' group (p < 0.001). Thus the results of this study showed high feasibility, internal consistency, reliability, and discriminant validity for the MQLI-Kr.
Yoon
Gihyun
G
Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Mezzich
Juan E
JE
Shin
Sun-Kyung
SK
Ruiperez
Maria A
MA
Zapata-Vega
Maria I
MI
Liu
Jason
J
D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating; D014481:United States