The psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF in Japanese couples

This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Japanese version of the WHOQOL-BREF among 10,693 community-based married Japanese men and women (4376 couples) who were either expecting or raising a child. Analyses of item-response distributions, internal consistency, criterion validity, a...

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Autores principales: Yoshitake, Naomi, Sun, Yi, Sugawara, Masumi, Matsumoto, Satoko, Sakai, Atsushi, Takaoka, Junko, Goto, Noriko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2015
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Report of Empirical Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5193313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28070365
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055102915598089
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author Yoshitake, Naomi
Sun, Yi
Sugawara, Masumi
Matsumoto, Satoko
Sakai, Atsushi
Takaoka, Junko
Goto, Noriko
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description This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Japanese version of the WHOQOL-BREF among 10,693 community-based married Japanese men and women (4376 couples) who were either expecting or raising a child. Analyses of item-response distributions, internal consistency, criterion validity, and discriminant validity indicated that the scale had acceptable reliability and performed well in preliminary tests of validity. Furthermore, dyadic confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the theoretical factor structure was valid and similar across partners, suggesting that men and women define and value quality of life in a similar way.
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spelling pubmed-51933132017-01-09 The psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF in Japanese couples Yoshitake, Naomi Sun, Yi Sugawara, Masumi Matsumoto, Satoko Sakai, Atsushi Takaoka, Junko Goto, Noriko Health Psychol Open Report of Empirical Study This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Japanese version of the WHOQOL-BREF among 10,693 community-based married Japanese men and women (4376 couples) who were either expecting or raising a child. Analyses of item-response distributions, internal consistency, criterion validity, and discriminant validity indicated that the scale had acceptable reliability and performed well in preliminary tests of validity. Furthermore, dyadic confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the theoretical factor structure was valid and similar across partners, suggesting that men and women define and value quality of life in a similar way. SAGE Publications 2015-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5193313/ /pubmed/28070365 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055102915598089 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Yoshitake, Naomi
Sun, Yi
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Matsumoto, Satoko
Sakai, Atsushi
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Goto, Noriko
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title_full The psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF in Japanese couples
title_fullStr The psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF in Japanese couples
title_full_unstemmed The psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF in Japanese couples
title_short The psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF in Japanese couples
title_sort psychometric properties of the whoqol-bref in japanese couples
topic Report of Empirical Study
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5193313/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055102915598089
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