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This study aims to develop the scale to measure South Korean preschoolers’ ability to use honorifics and parents’ belief, guidance, and discipline for preschoolers’ use of honorifics and to verify its validity and reliability. We developed preliminary items through previous literature review, discussion among researchers, and verification of content validity and face validity. After 317 mothers of preschoolers answered the questionnaire about children’s honorifics use and their guidance, we identified constructs of the scale and verified the validity and reliability of the scale with Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), and correlation analysis. The results of the study are as follows. First, Korean honorifics use and interaction scale for preschoolers consisted of 25 items under six constructs: preschoolers’ use of honorifics, preschoolers’ use of greetings, preschooler’s politeness, parents’ honorifics beliefs, parents’ honorifics guidance, and parents’ honorifics discipline. Second, we verified the convergent validity, discriminant validity, and concurrent validity of the scale. In conclusion, as the developed scale was verified to have theoretical and statistical validity and reliability, this scale can be used to evaluate South Korean preschoolers’ pragmatic development and its relation with parents’ honorifics beliefs, guidance, and discipline.
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