Journal article
The mental health continuum-short form: The structure and application for cross-cultural studies–A 38 nation study
M Żemojtel-Piotrowska, JP Piotrowski, EN Osin, J Cieciuch, BG Adams, R Ardi, S Bălţătescu, S Bogomaz, AL Bhomi, A Clinton, GT de Clunie, AZ Czarna, C Esteves, V Gouveia, MHJ Halik, A Hosseini, N Khachatryan, SV Kamble, A Kawula, VMC Lun Show all
Journal of Clinical Psychology | WILEY | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.22570
Abstract
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 (EC..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The work of Jaroslaw 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.