Factor Analysis of the Korean version of Gotland Male Depression Scale * / 생물치료정신의학

ABSTRACT

Objectives@#：Screening of male depression is important since their symptoms differ from females, such as more common suicide attempts and aggression. Rutz et al. designed the Gotland Male Depression Scale (GMDS) to understand male depression and prevent suicide. The aim of this study is to translate the GMDS into Korean and assess the factor structure of K-GMDS. @*Methods@#：The K-GMDS was administered to 213 male office workers in one public institution. The current study used exploratory factor analysis to validate the factor structure and used confirmatory factor analysis to test the construct validity of five factor models from prior research. @*Results@#：The result indicated that the K-GMDS is characterized by a two-factor structure, different from originally proposed GMDS factor structure and other prior models. Fit indices demonstrated the prior five models to be a poor fit to the data. The internal consistency was demonstrated by a Cronbach’s α of 0.921. @*Conclusions@#：This study can be used as a basis study of male depression, which has not been studied much in Korea. Though factor structure of GMDS reported discrepant findings with prior studies, it would help further development of the scale.