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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Mix Methods Res. 2011 Sep 2;5(4):309–329. doi: 10.1177/1558689811416481
Title of Measure Measurement References Reliability (α)
Demographics Age, marital status, visa status, the length of time abroad, employment
Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale, Korean version, Revised (CESD-K-R) Measures mood, somatic complaints, interactions with others, and motor functioning; CESD-K-R reverses the wording of the positive affect items Cho and Kim (1998); Cho et al. (1998); Noh, Kasper, and Chen (1998); Radloff (1977) .71-.89
Composite Symptoms Checklist (CSC) 130-item multidimensional symptom measure from standardized somatic, affective, and interpersonal checklists Kitayama, Markus, and Kurokawa (2000); Pennebaker (1982); Yasuda, Lubin, Kim, and Van Whitlock (2003)
The Symptom Interpretation Questionnaire (SIQ) Causal attribution of commonly occurring physical symptoms Robbins and Kirmayer (1991) .86, .71, and .81
Beliefs about Mental illness Scale (BMI) Culturally related beliefs about aspects of mental illness Hirai and Clum (2000) .81-.91
The Asian Values Scale (AVS) Adherence to Asian cultural values Kim,Atkinson, and Yang (1999) .80-.82
Personal Resource Questionnaire (PRQ20000) Perceived social support Weinert and Brandt (1987) .87-.93
Help-Seeking Questionnaire (HSQ) Recent life events, barriers or beliefs they inhibited help seeking, specific sources of help Lin, Goering, Offord, Campbell, and Boyle (1996)