2023 Volume 25 Issue 2 Pages 139-147
BACKGROUND：Greater understanding of disease-prone vs. healthy behavior patterns is important, because such patterns could be marks or targets of interventions. Grossarth-Maticek proposed “object dependence” as disease-prone and “autonomy” and “self-regulation” as healthy behavioral patterns. They showed that self-regulation is correlated with healthy lifestyle habits and it interacts with these habits in the direction of health promotion. OBJECTIVE：The Self-Regulation Questionnaire 16-item Short Form is a tool to measure self-regulation. We examined the reliability and validity of its Japanese version (SR16-J). Methods：A total of 227 hospital staff members and their family members/acquaintances (sample A) and 107 patients with cancer (sample B) completed a set of self-administered questionnaires that included the SR16-J. RESULTS：Cronbach’s alphas of the self-regulation scale were 0.93 and 0.93, and its test-retest reliability (Spearman’s r) coeffi cients were 0.87 and 0.92 in samples A and B, respectively. Factor analysis yielded a single factor that contributed about 50% of the variance. This scale was strongly, positively correlated with “type IV behavior” , which indicates autonomy, whereas it was correlated moderately or weakly, inversely with scales relevant to “type I” and “type II” behaviors, which are subordinate concepts of object dependence. It was also moderately, positively correlated with the “mental component summary” and its relevant subscales of SF-36, and positively associated with a frequency of partaking in physical exercise. These results were similar for both samples. CONCLUSION：A high reliability (internal consistency and reproducibility) and some validity( construct validity and criterion-related validity) were shown for SR16-J.
