The Development of the Revised Version of Solution Building Inventory Japanese version

Solution Building Inventory, developed by Smock et al. 2010 , was to assess how focus on solution in daily life, and was 14-items, 5-point Likert scale. The purpose of this study was to develop the revised version of Solution Building Inventory Japanese version SBI-R and to examine reliability and validity of SBI-R. A total of 800 peoples completed SBI-R, DHS, and LOT-R. As a result, exploratory factor analysis found that SBI-R had one factor structure and was consisted 14-item. Confirmatory factor analysis had an acceptable fit to one factor model. The Cronbach's alpha of SBI was .92 and internal consistency. Moreover, SBI-R was positively correlated with DHS and LOT-R. These results indicated that SBI-R had good reliability and validity as a measure of Solution Building concept.