title: Psychometric assessment of the Emotional Reactions Instrument-Korean (ERI-K) to measure Korean children's emotional reaction to hospitalization.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to test psychometric properties of the Emotional Reactions Instrument-Korean (ERI-K). A convenience sample of 170 hospitalized Korean children was recruited. Each child was asked to describe how she or he felt during hospitalization, through the ERI-K and the Facial Affective Scale. Surprisingly, children reported lower levels of negative emotions and physical discomfort and a moderate level of positive emotion (Happy, Good). Internal consistency reliability of .88 for the 14-item scale provides strong support for reliability. Construct validity was supported by item-to-total correlations ranging between .42 and .65. Exploratory factor analysis identified two factors that explained 54% of the variance. Further testing of the ERI-K is recommended to provide additional evidence of psychometric adequacy across Korean populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Chosun University, 375 Seosuk-dong, Dong-Ku, Gwangju, South Korea.
authors.forename: Jin-Sun
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jeong-Hwan
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Roxie L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Foster
authors.forename: Sufen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000339:Affect; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D008297:Male; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires