Development of a mental health literacy questionnaire for college stu-dents,and assessment of its validity and reliability
Objective This study was aimed at developing a mental health literacy questionnaire for college stu-dents,and testing its validity and reliability.Methods The structure of college students'mental health literacy was ana-lyzed,and a preliminary questionnaire was prepared.A total of 806 college students were selected for item analysis,explor-atory factor analysis,confirmatory factor analysis,and internal consistency reliability testing,and 83 were re-selected 1 week later.The validity of the criterion was tested with the attitude questionnaire and the Meaning of Life questionnaire in Chi-nese.Results The college students'mental health literacy questionnaire contained 20 items,which were divided into four factors:self-help ability,professional help attitude,psychological stigma attitude,and helping belief.These factors explained 56.03％of the variance,and the load of the four factors ranged from 0.47 to 0.83.Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the four-factor structure model fit well(x2/df=2.85,CFI=0.90,TLI=0.88,RMSEA=0.068,SRMR=0.063).The criterion validi-ty test indicated that the total mental health literacy score among college students positively correlated with the total score on the attitude questionnaire of seeking professional psychological help(P＜0.01).The internal consistency reliability coeffi-cients of the total questionnaire and four factors ranged from 0.775 to 0.864.The retest reliability ranged from 0.635 to 0.785.Conclusion The college students'mental health literacy questionnaire had good validity and reliability.
NETL
NSTL
万方数据
维普
