Yamasaki K, Kikuno H
Department of Children's Education, Osaka Aoyama Junior College.
Shinrigaku Kenkyu. 1990 Aug;61(3):155-61. doi: 10.4992/jjpsy.61.155.
The reliability and validity of a Japanese version of the Matthews Youth Test for Health (MYTH) are reported. The MYTH is a questionnaire by which the degrees of Type A in children are measured. In Study 1, 23 teachers in kindergartens and day nurseries rated their children (N = 482 in all; 3 to 5 years old) by using the MYTH. Statistical analyses of the data indicate that this questionnaire is reliable and internally consistent, and has two factors, competitiveness and impatience-aggression, just as the American version. In Study 2, children (4 to 5 years old) were divided into two groups, Type-A (N = 24) and Type-B (N = 25), according to the scores of the MYTH. Each child was given three tasks (mailing, discrimination, and putting-in-chips). The results show that in those tasks Type-A children show more time urgency, hard-driving, and competition than Type-B children, which suggests that the Japanese version has a high construct validity. These two studies indicate that the Japanese version can be used in Japan to study Type A of young children.
本文报告了日本版马修斯青少年健康测试（MYTH）的信度和效度。MYTH是一份用于测量儿童A型行为程度的问卷。在研究1中，23名幼儿园和日托中心的教师使用MYTH对他们的孩子（共计482名，年龄在3至5岁之间）进行了评分。对数据的统计分析表明，这份问卷具有信度和内部一致性，并且和美国版一样，有竞争意识和急躁-攻击性两个因子。在研究2中，根据MYTH的得分，将4至5岁的儿童分为两组，A型（24名）和B型（25名）。每个孩子都要完成三项任务（邮寄、辨别和放筹码）。结果显示，在这些任务中，A型儿童比B型儿童表现出更强的时间紧迫感、进取心和竞争意识，这表明日本版具有较高的结构效度。这两项研究表明，日本版可在日本用于研究幼儿的A型行为。
