TY - JOUR
T1 - The mental health continuum-short form
T2 - The structure and application for cross-cultural studies–A 38 nation study
AU - Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Magdalena
AU - Piotrowski, Jarosław P.
AU - Osin, Evgeny N.
AU - Cieciuch, Jan
AU - Adams, Byron G.
AU - Ardi, Rahkman
AU - Bălţătescu, Sergiu
AU - Bogomaz, Sergey
AU - Bhomi, Arbinda Lal
AU - Clinton, Amanda
AU - de Clunie, Gisela T.
AU - Czarna, Anna Z.
AU - Esteves, Carla
AU - Gouveia, Valdiney
AU - Halik, Murnizam H.J.
AU - Hosseini, Ashraf
AU - Khachatryan, Narine
AU - Kamble, Shanmukh Vasant
AU - Kawula, Anna
AU - Lun, Vivian Miu Chi
AU - Ilisko, Dzintra
AU - Klicperova-Baker, Martina
AU - Liik, Kadi
AU - Letovancova, Eva
AU - Cerrato, Sara Malo
AU - Michalowski, Jaroslaw
AU - Malysheva, Natalia
AU - Marganski, Alison
AU - Nikolic, Marija
AU - Park, Joonha
AU - Paspalanova, Elena
AU - de Leon, Pablo Perez
AU - Pék, Győző
AU - Różycka-Tran, Joanna
AU - Samekin, Adil
AU - Shahbaz, Wahab
AU - Khanh Ha, Truong Thi
AU - Tiliouine, Habib
AU - Van Hiel, Alain
AU - Vauclair, Melanie
AU - Wills-Herrera, Eduardo
AU - Włodarczyk, Anna
AU - Yahiiaev, Illia
AU - Maltby, John
N1 - Funding Information:
The work of Jarosław P. Piotrowski was supported by research grant rewarded by University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poznan Faculty. The work of Jan Cieciuch was supported by grants 2014/14/M/HS6/00919 from the National Science Centre, Poland. The work of Evgeny Osin was funded by the Russian Academic Excellence project ‘5-100’. Order of authors reflects their contribution to the work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - Objective: 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. Method: 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). Results: 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. Conclusion: 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.
AB - Objective: 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. Method: 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). Results: 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. Conclusion: 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.
KW - Mental Health Continuum-Short Form
KW - cross-cultural study
KW - measurement invariance
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U2 - 10.1002/jclp.22570
DO - 10.1002/jclp.22570
M3 - Article
C2 - 29380877
AN - SCOPUS:85041098822
SN - 0021-9762
VL - 74
SP - 1034
EP - 1052
JO - Journal of Clinical Psychology
JF - Journal of Clinical Psychology
IS - 6
ER -
