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This research aims to develop a questionnaire of deviant behavior for the Korean elderly people which may make a big contribution to the ex-amination of deviance behavior of the elderly people and may play an important role in providing a methodological basis. In order to accom-plish the purpose of the this study, there were three different stages; (a) making preliminary question items, (b) refining the items of the scale through a plot study, and (c) finalizing question items by a main survey. In the first stage, 43 question items were developed using the open-ended questionnaire and structural inquiry of succession from 137 elderly people who are over 65 yr. In the second phase, based on data collected by the 200 elderly people pilot testing was performed through exploratory factor analysis and reliability test. The scale is a 27-item self-report questionnaire. In the main survey conducted by 184 el-derly people, 21 items, which consisted of four subfactors, were final-ized in order to measure deviance behaviors of the Korean elderly peo-ple: social deviance (n=8), economic deviance (n=5), psychological deviance (n=5), and physical deviance (n=3).