Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop the scale of Korean womens' psychological characters. Opening questionnaire were asked for getting adverbs representing Korean womens' psychological characters. After integrating the data, the scale was made at each ages(for 20 years old, 40 years old and 60 years old people). To identify the structure of the scale, exploratory factor analysis was used. The result was that positive character factor, selfish character factor, unstable character factor, sensuous character factor and hopeful character factor were found in the scale of 20 years old people. Depressinve character factor, mild character factor, family-centered character factor, impudent character factor and display character factor were discovered in the scale of 40 years old people. Daunted character factor, authoratative character factor, and affectionate charactor factor were found in the scale of 60 years old people. These factors reflect all the character of Korean people, the character of each age, and the character of women.