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

Magdalena Zemojtel-Piotrowska; Jaroslaw P. Piotrowski; Evgeny N. Osin; Jan Cieciuch; Byron G. Adams; Rahkman Ardi; Sergiu Baltatescu; 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; Gyozo Pek; Joanna Rozycka-Tran; Adil Samekin; Wahab Shahbaz; null Truong Thi Khanh Ha; Habib Tiliouine; Alain Van Hiel; Melanie Vauclair; Eduardo Wills-Herrera; Anna Wlodarczyk; Illia Yahiiaev; John Maltby

doi:10.1002/jclp.22570

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

Magdalena Zemojtel-Piotrowska^*, Jaroslaw P. Piotrowski, Evgeny N. Osin, Jan Cieciuch, Byron G. Adams, Rahkman Ardi, Sergiu Baltatescu, 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 LunDzintra 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, Gyozo Pek, Joanna Rozycka-Tran, Adil Samekin, Wahab Shahbaz, Truong Thi Khanh Ha, Habib Tiliouine, Alain Van Hiel, Melanie Vauclair, Eduardo Wills-Herrera, Anna Wlodarczyk, Illia Yahiiaev, John Maltby

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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 (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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1034-1052
Journal	Journal of Clinical Psychology
Volume	74
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22570
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

cross-cultural study
measurement invariance
Mental Health Continuum-Short Form
OF-FIT INDEXES
UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS
MHC-SF
BIFACTOR
PREVALENCE
MODELS
LIFE

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Zemojtel-Piotrowska, M., Piotrowski, J. P., Osin, E. N., Cieciuch, J., Adams, B. G., Ardi, R., Baltatescu, S., Bogomaz, S., Bhomi, A. L., Clinton, A., de Clunie, G. T., Czarna, A. Z., Esteves, C., Gouveia, V., Halik, M. H. J., Hosseini, A., Khachatryan, N., Kamble, S. V., Kawula, A., ... 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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