Validation and Reliability of the Positive Mental Health Literacy Scale in Middle School Students
Objective:To test the validation and reliability of the Chinese version of the positive mental health literacy scale in middle school students.Methods:At time 1,the positive mental health literacy scale,attitude toward seeking pro-fessional psychological help questionnaire,simple coping style scale,generalized anxiety disorder scale,and center for epi-demiological studies depression scale were distributed to 443 junior high school students.At time 2,a stack survey was con-duct with positive mental health literacy scale,University of California at loneliness scale and the Chinese version of the Warwick-Edinburgh mental well-being scale(n=270).In addition,429 students from another junior high school were se-lected to answer the positive mental health literacy scale for confirmatory factor analysis.Results:(1)Both exploratory fac-tor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis supported the one-dimensional structure of the positive mental health literacy scale;(2)The α coefficients and ω coefficients of positive mental health literacy scale were 0.793 and 0.796(Sample 1,T1),0.793 and 0.800(Sample 1,T2),0.833 and 0.835(Sample 2),and the retest reliability was 0.588(Sample 1);(3)T1 positive mental health literacy was positively correlated with T1 positive coping style(r=0.442,P＜0.001),and seeking professional psychological help attitude(r=0.281,P＜0.001),and negatively correlated with T1 depression(r=-0.457,P＜0.001)and anxi-ety(r=-0.341,P＜0.00l)in sample 1.(4)T2 positive mental health literacy was positively correlated with T2 positive mental health(r=0.737,P＜0.001),and negatively correlated with T2 loneliness(r=-0.538,P＜0.001)in sample 1;(5)T1 positive mental health literacy was positively correlated with T2 positive mental health(r=0.526,P＜0.001),and negatively correlat-ed with T2 loneliness(r=-0.367,P＜0.001)in sample 1.Conclusion:Positive Mental Health Literacy Scale has good reli-ability and validity.
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