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ERIC Number: EJ1027051
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Jul
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0734-2829
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Psychometric Characteristics of the Korean Mental Health Continuum-Short Form in an Adolescent Sample
Lim, Young-Jin
Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, v32 n4 p356-364 Jul 2014
There have been few research studies to examine the positive mental health of Asian adolescents. The aim here is to examine the factorial structure, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent/discriminant validity of a Korean version of the Mental Health Continuum-short form (K-MHC-SF), a newly developed self-report scale for positive mental health assessment, in a sample of South Korean adolescents. The Korean sample comprised 547 high school students (57% were female), ranging in age from 14 to 17 years (mean age = 16.08 years, SD = 0.34). Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the K-MHC-SF replicated the three-factor structure of emotional, psychological, and social well-being found in earlier studies. Another confirmatory factor analysis supported the correlated two-factor model of mental health and mental disorder. The internal consistency of the overall K-MHC-SF was 0.91. The total score on the K-MHC-SF significantly correlated with a measure of life satisfaction (? = 0.58) and a measure of self-esteem (? = 0.57). In addition, the attempt at categorical classification revealed that 11.7% were in the category of positive mental health, characterized as flourishing, and 13.0% were in the category of absence of positive mental health, described as languishing. The results of the present study suggest that the K-MHC-SF is a psychometrically sound instrument for measuring the three lower-order dimensions of subjective well-being.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Korea
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