title: The Korean version of the Multicultural Quality of Life Index (MQLI-Kr): development and validation.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Gihyun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Juan E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Mezzich
authors.forename: Sun-Kyung
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Maria A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ruiperez
authors.forename: Maria I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Zapata-Vega
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: 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