title: Cross-cultural validation of a smoking abstinence self-efficacy scale in Korean American men.
abstract: The main purpose of the study was to examine the psychometric properties of a Smoking Abstinence Self-Efficacy Scale with Korean men in the US. The scale was modified to reflect the Korean cultural practice of smoking behavior and was cross-culturally validated with a panel of 10 professionals. An 11-item Korean version of the scale was administered twice over a one-month period. Data were analyzed for internal consistency reliability, stability, and construct validity. After the deletion of one item, an exploratory factor analysis yielded two factors, which explained 62% of the variance. Internal consistency was satisfactory for the total scale (.89), Factor I (.88), and Factor II (.80) but intraclass correlation coefficient for the total scale (.57) was low. Nicotine dependence and nicotine withdrawal showed modest but statistically significant correlations with the scale.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA. sun.kim@umassmed.edu
authors.forename: Sun S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seong-Ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Elsie E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Gulick
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001213:Asian / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020377:Self Efficacy; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult