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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The mental health continuum-short form: The structure and application for cross-cultural studies-A 38 nation study
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska
  • 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
  • John Maltby
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Clinical Psychology
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0021-9762
Volume 74
Page Range 1034 - 1052
Date 2018
Abstract Text 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.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1002/jclp.22570
Other Identification Number merlin-id:16115
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