E-ISSN : 2733-4538
In this study, we examined the reliability and validity of Korean Negative Affect Self-Statement Questionnaire(NASSQ) which was developed to assess negative self-talk of depression and anxiety in youth. The NASSQ was proven to be a very reliable assessment tool. The result of factor analysis showed that the NASSQ had a four-factor structure representing 'depressive self statement', 'negative self evaluation', 'anxious self statement', and 'positive self statement'. This factor structure is quite different from the original three subscales of the NASSQ. The NASSQ was positively correlated with depression and anxiety and showed high correlation with children's negative automatic thoughts. Among normal group, there was a significant difference of the NASSQ score between high-depression group and low-depression group. This same result also applied to high and low anxiety group. In the psychiatric patient group, the NASSQ discriminated depressive disorder from age, sex matched healthy normals. But, there was no significant group difference between anxiety disorder and normal controls. The results of this study and the directions of future study were discussed.