The mental health continuum-short form: The structure and application for cross-cultural studies-A 38 nation study
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081740%3A_____%2F18%3A00489118" target="_blank" >RIV/68081740:_____/18:00489118 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22570" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22570</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22570" target="_blank" >10.1002/jclp.22570</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The mental health continuum-short form: The structure and application for cross-cultural studies-A 38 nation study
Original language description
The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) is a brief scale measuring positive human functioning. The study aimed to examine the factor structure and to explore the cross-cultural utility of the MHC-SF using bifactor models and exploratory structural equation modelling. Using multigroup confirmatory analysis (MGCFA) we examined the measurement invariance of the MHC-SF in 38 countries (university students, N = 8,066, 61.73% women, mean age 21.55 years). MGCFA supported the cross-cultural replicability of a bifactor structure and a metric level of invariance between student samples. The average proportion of variance explained by the general factor was high (ECV = .66), suggesting that the three aspects of mental health (emotional, social, and psychological well-being) can be treated as a single dimension of well-being. The metric level of invariance offers the possibility of comparing correlates and predictors of positive mental functioning across countries, however, the comparison of the levels of mental health across countries is not possible due to lack of scalar invariance. Our study has preliminary character and could serve as an initial assessment of the structure of the MHC-SF across different cultural settings. Further studies on general populations are required for extending our findings.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Clinical Psychology
ISSN
0021-9762
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
74
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
1034-1052
UT code for WoS article
000433580500017
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85041098822