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The mental health continuum-short form : the structure and application for cross-cultural studies-A 38 nation study

(2018) JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 74(6). p.1034-1052
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ObjectiveThe 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. MethodUsing 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). ResultsMGCFA 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. ConclusionThe 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.
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OF-FIT INDEXES, UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS, MHC-SF, BIFACTOR, PREVALENCE, MODELS, LIFE, cross-cultural study, measurement invariance, Mental Health, Continuum-Short Form

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Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Magdalena, et al. “The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form : The Structure and Application for Cross-Cultural Studies-A 38 Nation Study.” JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 74, no. 6, 2018, pp. 1034–52, doi:10.1002/jclp.22570.
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Żemojtel-Piotrowska, M., Piotrowski, J. P., Osin, E. N., Cieciuch, J., Adams, B. G., Ardi, R., … Maltby, J. (2018). The mental health continuum-short form : the structure and application for cross-cultural studies-A 38 nation study. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 74(6), 1034–1052. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22570
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Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Magdalena, Jarosław P. Piotrowski, Evgeny N. Osin, Jan Cieciuch, Byron G. Adams, Rahkman Ardi, Sergiu Bălţătescu, et al. 2018. “The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form : The Structure and Application for Cross-Cultural Studies-A 38 Nation Study.” JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 74 (6): 1034–52. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22570.
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Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Magdalena, Jarosław P. Piotrowski, Evgeny N. Osin, Jan Cieciuch, Byron G. Adams, Rahkman Ardi, Sergiu Bălţătescu, Sergey Bogomaz, Arbinda Lal Bhomi, Amanda Clinton, Gisela T. de Clunie, Anna Z. Czarna, Carla Esteves, Valdiney Gouveia, Murnizam H.J. Halik, Ashraf Hosseini, Narine Khachatryan, Shanmukh Vasant Kamble, Anna Kawula, Vivian Miu-Chi Lun, Dzintra Ilisko, Martina Klicperova-Baker, Kadi Liik, Eva Letovancova, Sara Malo Cerrato, Jaroslaw Michalowski, Natalia Malysheva, Alison Marganski, Marija Nikolic, Joonha Park, Elena Paspalanova, Pablo Perez de Leon, Győző Pék, Joanna Różycka-Tran, Adil Samekin, Wahab Shahbaz, Truong Thi Khanh Ha, Habib Tiliouine, Alain Van Hiel, Melanie Vauclair, Eduardo Wills - Herrera, Anna Włodarczyk, Illia Yahiiaev, and John Maltby. 2018. “The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form : The Structure and Application for Cross-Cultural Studies-A 38 Nation Study.” JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 74 (6): 1034–1052. doi:10.1002/jclp.22570.
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Żemojtel-Piotrowska M, Piotrowski JP, Osin EN, Cieciuch J, Adams BG, Ardi R, et al. The mental health continuum-short form : the structure and application for cross-cultural studies-A 38 nation study. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 2018;74(6):1034–52.
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M. Żemojtel-Piotrowska et al., “The mental health continuum-short form : the structure and application for cross-cultural studies-A 38 nation study,” JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 74, no. 6, pp. 1034–1052, 2018.
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