University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Assessment. 2020 Apr;27(3):596-606. doi: 10.1177/1073191117748394. Epub 2017 Dec 27.
The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) is a widely used scale aimed at assessing three components of well-being: emotional, social, and psychological. The factor structure of the MHC-SF has been under debate over the past 10 years. The main goal of the present study was to examine the dimensionality of the MHC-SF. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA), bifactor CFA, exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), and bifactor ESEM were used to evaluate competing models of the MHC-SF structure. The total sample consisted of 7,521 participants from four countries: The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Serbia. The results indicated that the three CFA factors were very highly related, and that a bifactor ESEM model provided the best fit to the data in all samples. Our findings provided support for the bifactor structure of well-being with a strong general factor explaining most of the variance in the items.
心理健康连续体-短式量表（MHC-SF）是一种广泛使用的量表，旨在评估幸福感的三个组成部分：情绪、社交和心理。过去 10 年来，MHC-SF 的因子结构一直存在争议。本研究的主要目的是检验 MHC-SF 的维度。验证性因子分析（CFA）、双因子 CFA、探索性结构方程模型（ESEM）和双因子 ESEM 用于评估 MHC-SF 结构的竞争模型。总样本由来自四个国家的 7521 名参与者组成：荷兰、波兰、葡萄牙和塞尔维亚。结果表明，三个 CFA 因子高度相关，双因子 ESEM 模型在所有样本中提供了最佳拟合数据。我们的研究结果支持幸福感的双因子结构，一个强有力的一般因素解释了项目中大部分的变异。
