A Validation Study of the Korean-Ruminative Response Scale in Korean Adolescents

Abstract

ObjectiveWe aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of Korean version of Ruminative Response Scale (K-RRS) for Korean adolescents.MethodsA community sample of 1220 adolescents was recruited from middle schools and high schools. Exploratory factor analyses and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted, and additional analyses were performed to assess the reliability and validity of the K-RRS.ResultsAn exploratory factor analysis of a sample of adolescents (n=550) yielded a three factor structure: 'depressive rumination', 'reflective pondering', and 'brooding'. Confirmatory factor analyses of another sample of adolescents (n=530) supported the three-factor model for the K-RRS. The K-RRS was found to have good internal consistency and construct validity.ConclusionOur results suggest that K-RRS is a valid measurement to assess rumination in adolescents, as well as in adults.

Factor Structure of the Ruminative Response Scale and Measurement Invariance across Gender and Age among Chinese Adolescents

“…The results of CFA showed that the structural validity of three factors model of the RRS was acceptable, and most of the factor loading was greater than 0. and analyze it) in the reflection subscale (0.39) were not satisfactory. These results was similar with the previous researches of Dutch (Schoofs et al, 2010;Treynor et al, 2003) and other Asian countries (Shin et al, 2015). Previous re-searches concerning RRS-10's factor analysis have shown a good two-factor structure (Lei et al, 2017;Treynor et al, 2003), however, the validity of the three-factor construct is rarely verified.…”

“…Compared to the USA, Europe, Korean and Japan (Shin et al, 2015, Xavier et al, 2016Lee & Kim, 2014;Extremera & Fernandez-Berrocal, 2006), the Cronbach's alpha of this study may be somewhat lower but acceptable according to standards of Baker et al (Lee & Kim, 2014). Moreover, compared with college students samples (Lei et al, 2017), the application of RRS on adolescents samples showed higher Cronbach's alpha of the total scale.…”

“…were excluded from each subordinate factor (Lee & Kim, 2014). Even the three-factor structural model of Korean-RRS also was different from previous model that depression included 9 items, reflection included 6 items and brooding included 7 items (Shin, Cho, & Kim, 2015).…”

“…Previous re-searches concerning RRS-10's factor analysis have shown a good two-factor structure (Lei et al, 2017;Treynor et al, 2003), however, the validity of the three-factor construct is rarely verified. The revised three-factor model of RRS which excluded the item 14 is also considered to be appropriate which is similar with Korean sample (Shin et al, 2015).…”

“…So more researches discussed the reliability and validity of the two factors of RRS (Hasegawa, 2013;Lei et al, 2017;Lucena-Santos et al, 2018), but less researches focused on the reliability and validity of the three factors. The RRS has emerged as the most frequently used self-report measure of depressive rumination in both researches and clinical practice for its wide target population and stable reliability and validity in Japanese, Dutch and Korean (Topper et al, 2014;Shin, Cho, & Kim, 2015). Researches about university students of Chinese had shown that the CFA about the two factors of RRS exceptive of depression fit the model and the measurement equivalence of the RRS-10 was acceptable across gender.…”