Development of mental health scale for adolescence:Based on the dual-factor model of mental health
A complete mental health state not only refers to the absence of mental illness,but also points to the presence of positive mental health,which has been termed as the dual factor model(DFM)of mental health.Based on the DFM,the current study developed and validated a mental health scale for teenagers by incorporating both negative and positive psychological measures.Three tests were conducted in total.Test 1 collected data from 536 teenager participants,which was used for conducting term analysis and exploratory factor analysis.Data from Test 2(499 participants)was used for confirmatory factor analy-sis and internal consistency analysis,and data from Test 3(304 participants)for retest analysis and crite-rion relevance analysis.Results revealed five subscales with a total of 77 items,namely depression,anxi-ety,aggression,problematic internet use,and positive mental health,in which the former four subscales formed negative mental health.Each subscale had good structure validity,criterion validity(0.42-0.63),internal consistency reliability(0.78-0.93),and test-retest reliability(0.82-0.93).The internal consistency coefficient of the whole scale was 0.94.Five subscales can be fitted into the dual factor model character-ized by negative and positive mental health.Therefore,the current scale is suitable to measure the mental health condition of Chinese adolescents.
adolescencedual-factor model of mental healthscale developmentnegative mental illnesspositive mental health
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