Jang Hee-Jung, Lee Jungmin, Nam Soo-Hyun
School of Nursing, Hallym University, Chuncheon-si 24252, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea.
Department of Nursing, Andong National University, Andong 36729, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea.
Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Jul 30;11(15):2166. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11152166.
This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Korean version of the perceived costs and benefits scale (K-PCBS) for sexual intercourse to deepen our understanding of the complex psychosocial and interpersonal elements influencing young people's sexual decision-making. The study participants were 227 college students in South Korea aged 18-25 years. Two factors were extracted through factor analysis, accounting for 61.05% and 58.18% of the variance for perceived costs and perceived benefits, respectively, and showed a good model fit in the K-PCBS. Reliability was high, as indicated by Cronbach's alphas of 0.87 and 0.84 for the perceived costs and perceived benefits subscales, respectively. The results indicate that the K-PCBS may serve as an appropriate instrument for measuring South Korean youth's cost and benefit analysis regarding their sexual decision-making. Our study makes a significant contribution to the literature and field because it identifies the underlying feelings and attitudes of young adults toward engaging in sexual activities using the K-PCBS for sexual intercourse, which has good reliability, validity, and internal consistency.
本研究旨在评估韩国版性交感知成本与收益量表（K-PCBS）的心理测量特性，以加深我们对影响年轻人性决策的复杂心理社会和人际因素的理解。研究参与者为227名年龄在18至25岁之间的韩国大学生。通过因子分析提取了两个因子，分别解释了感知成本和感知收益方差的61.05%和58.18%，并且在K-PCBS中显示出良好的模型拟合度。可靠性较高，感知成本分量表和感知收益分量表的克朗巴哈系数分别为0.87和0.84。结果表明，K-PCBS可能是衡量韩国青少年性决策中成本和收益分析的合适工具。我们的研究对文献和该领域做出了重大贡献，因为它使用具有良好信度、效度和内部一致性的性交K-PCBS识别了年轻人对参与性活动的潜在感受和态度。
