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

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

doi:10.1002/jclp.22570

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

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

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of Clinical Psychology
Volume	74
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22570
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2018

Funding

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.

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

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cross-cultural study
measurement invariance
Mental Health Continuum-Short Form

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ŻEMOJTEL-PIOTROWSKA, M., PIOTROWSKI, J. P., OSIN, E. N., CIECIUCH, J., ADAMS, B. G., ARDI, R., BĂLŢĂTESCU, 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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