청소년 인터넷중독 관찰자용 척도 개발

Abstract

This study was aimed at developing observer rating scale for youth who are prone to internet addiction. An observer rating scale was for therapist, a family member, a friend, parents, a teacher, and significant others to know an internet user. KO scale was designed to assist KS scale in terms of confirming KS scale and screening low to medium risk group which cannot be filtered by self-report such as KS scale. The cut off scores were decided for considering compatibility with KS scale and B-scale. Shortly, KS scale was based on B-scale in terms of criterion-references test for an absolute comparison and was matched with KS scale in terms of a norm-referenced test for a relative comparison. We tested whether each items were statistically unique and different following each groups using One Way Anova analysis(High risk, low to medium risk and general groups). In order to decide cut off scores, we assessed what the distribution of the of KO scale would be following to each group divided by KS scale. The result showed that the scores of 75 percentile in general group were between 2 to 3, the scores of 75 percentile in low to medium risk groups were between 8 to 11. Therefore, general group is ``0~2, low to medium risk group is 3~9 points, and high risk group is above 10 pints in KO Scale. We also tested correlation analysis with total scores of KS scale and KO scales from 89 students. The correlation coefficient was. 56, which is statistically significant(p< 0.001).Also, correlation analysis of sub-factors between KS scale and KO scale, correlation coefficients were was .50 for disturbance of adaptive function, .29 for Addictive automatic thought, .34 withdrawal, .31 for virtual interpersonal relationship, .43 for deviate behavior, and .49 for tolerance. The information from KO scale would help parents to understand their children and teachers to provide guideline.