Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Adolescent Version of the General Behavior Inventory in Korean Youth

• Published in: Soa--chʻŏngsonyŏn chŏngsin ŭihak = Journal of child & adolescent psychiatry 2019-10, Vol.30 (4), p.168-178
• Main Authors: Lee, Han-Sung, Kwon, Yejin, Shon, Seung-Hyun, Park, Kee Jeong, Kim, Hyo-Won
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Original
• ISSN: 1225-729X; 2233-9183
• DOI: 10.5765/jkacap.190023

We examined the factor structure of the Adolescent version of the General Behavior Inventory (A-GBI) for Koreans. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 220 adolescents (age, 12-18 years) who completed the A-GBI through the Department of Psychiatry at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, from October 2011 to December 2018. Caregivers of the study participants completed the Parent version of the GBI (P-GBI) 10-item Mania Scale. The adolescents were evaluated based on the A-GBI, Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), and Revised-Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS). Subsequently, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using the maximum likelihood method with direct oblimin rotation and correlation analyses with other scales were performed. The EFA identified a two-factor structure as having the best fit: factor I included depressive symptoms and factor II included hypomanic/biphasic symptoms. Factor I was very strongly correlated with the A-GBI depressive subscale (r=0.990, p