Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska1, Jarosław P Piotrowski2, Evgeny N Osin3, Jan Cieciuch1,4, Byron G Adams5,6, Rahkman Ardi7, Sergiu Bălţătescu8, Sergey Bogomaz9, Arbinda Lal Bhomi10, Amanda Clinton11, Gisela T de Clunie12, Anna Z Czarna13, Carla Esteves14, Valdiney Gouveia15, Murnizam H J Halik16, Ashraf Hosseini17, Narine Khachatryan18, Shanmukh Vasant Kamble19, Anna Kawula20, Vivian Miu-Chi Lun21, Dzintra Ilisko22, Martina Klicperova-Baker23, Kadi Liik24, Eva Letovancova25, Sara Malo Cerrato26, Jaroslaw Michalowski27, Natalia Malysheva28, Alison Marganski29, Marija Nikolic30, Joonha Park31, Elena Paspalanova32, Pablo Perez de Leon33, Győző Pék34, Joanna Różycka-Tran35, Adil Samekin36, Wahab Shahbaz37, Truong Thi Khanh Ha38, Habib Tiliouine39, Alain Van Hiel40, Melanie Vauclair41, Eduardo Wills-Herrera42, Anna Włodarczyk43, Illia Yahiiaev44, John Maltby45. 1. Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland. 2. University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poznan Campus, Poland. 3. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. 4. University of Zurich, University Research Priority Program Social Networks, Switzerland. 5. Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Poland. 6. University of Johannesburg, South Africa. 7. Airlangga University, Indonesia. 8. University of Oradea, Romania. 9. National Research Tomsk State University. 10. Tribhuvan University. 11. University of Puerto Rico, American Psychological Association. 12. Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá. 13. Jagellonian University, Poland. 14. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal. 15. Federal University of Paraíba, Brasil. 16. University of Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia. 17. University of Melbourne, Australia. 18. Yerevan State University, Armenia. 19. Karnatak University, India. 20. Pedagogic University in Cracov, Poland. 21. Lingnan University, China. 22. Daugavpils University, Latvia. 23. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech. 24. Tallinn University, Estonia. 25. Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. 26. University of Girona, Spain. 27. University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poznan Campus. 28. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. 29. Le Moyne College, US. 30. LUM University. 31. Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan. 32. New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria. 33. Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay. 34. University of Debrecen, Hungary. 35. University of Gdansk, Poland. 36. S. Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University, Kazakhstan. 37. Massey University, Australia. 38. University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU, Hanoi, Vietnam. 39. Oran University, Algeria. 40. Ghent University, Belgium. 41. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL). 42. Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia. 43. Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile). 44. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. 45. University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
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.
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.
Authors: Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez; Pablo D Valencia; Lindsey W Vilca; Carlos Carbajal-León; Andrea Vivanco-Vidal; Daniela Saroli-Araníbar; Mario Reyes-Bossio; Michel White; Claudio Rojas-Jara; Roberto Polanco-Carrasco; Miguel Gallegos; Mauricio Cervigni; Pablo Martino; Diego Alejandro Palacios; Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera; Antonio Samaniego-Pinho; Marlon Elías Lobos-Rivera; Andrés Buschiazzo Figares; Diana Ximena Puerta-Cortés; Ibraín Enrique Corrales-Reyes; Raymundo Calderón; Bismarck Pinto Tapia; Ilka Franco Ferrari; Carmen Flores-Mendoza Journal: Curr Psychol Date: 2022-01-19