Reliability and validity of the Mental Health Continuum (MHC-SF) in the Ecuadorian contexts
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https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v11i2.1499Keywords:
wellbeing, psychometric properties, mental health, psychological assessment, instrumental development, MHC-SFAbstract
The present study aims to study the factor structure, reliability and validity of the Mental Health Continuum (MHC-SF) of Keyes (2009) in the Ecuadorian context. The scale was applied to two samples, one of 100 people that worked as a pilot and another of 550 people resident in the city of Cuenca-Ecuador, who also were applied an adaptation of the PERMA Profile of Butler and Kern (2016) to verify the convergent and discriminant validity. It was observed that the application in this population presents adequate levels of adjustment and high internal consistency (α=.91) and an adequate general adjustment of the structure of three factors: psychological well-being, social welfare and emotional well-being proposed by the author whose main fit values are RMSEA= .045, CFI= .996, χ2(52)= 109.048 (p= .000), GFI= .997 y TLI= 0.993. The bifactor model presents good values as well: RMSEA=.042, CFI= .996, χ2(52) = 103.040 (p= .000), GFI= .997, TLI= 0.993. We conclude that the Spanish version of MHC-SF (Keyes, 2009) and the bifactor model are appropriate tools to measure mental health in the Ecuadorian context.
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Huppert, F. A., y So, T. T. (2013).Flourishing across Europe: Application of a new conceptual framework for defining well-being. Social Indicators Research, 110(3) 837-861. doi: 1.1007/s11205-011-9966-7.
Jovanović, Veljko. (2015). Structural validity of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form: The bifactor model of emotional, social and psychological well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 75, 154-159. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.11.026
Jiménez, L., Lafuente, D., & Hernández, B. (1999). Mayores: Calidad de vida y necesidades básicas. Rev Rol Enf, 22(11), 743-6.
Joshanloo, M., Wissing, M. P., Khumalo, I. P., y Lamers, S. M. (2013). Measurement invariance of the Mental Healt Continuum- Short Form (MHC-SF) across three cultural groups. Personality and Individual Differences, 55(7) 775-759
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Keyes, C. L., Corey, L., Shmotkin, D., y Ryff, C. D. (2002). Optimizing well-being: the empirical encounter of two traditions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1007.doi:1.1037/0022-3514.82.6.1007
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Lamers, S., Glas, C., Westerhof, G., y Bolemeijer, E. (2011). Longitudinal Evaluation Of The Mental Health Continuun- Short Form (MHC-SF). Measurement Invariance Across Demographics, Physical Illnes, And Mental Illness. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 28, 290-296. doi:1.1002/jclp.20741
Lima-Castro, S., Peña Contreras, E. K., Cedillo Quizphe, C., & Cabrera Vélez, M. (2017). Adaptación del perfil perma en una muestra ecuatoriana. Eureka, 14(1), 1-166.
Lupano Perugini, M. L., de la Iglesia, G., Castro Solano, A. y Keyes, C. L. M. (2017). The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) in the Argentinean Context: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Measurement Invariance. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 13(1), 93-108. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v13i1.1163
Löckenhoff, C.E. y Carstensen, L.L. (2004). Socioemotional selectivity theory, aging, and health: The increasingly delicate balance between regulating emotions and making tough choices. Journal of Personality, 72, 1395–1424.
Petrillo, G., Capone, V., Caso, D., y Keyes, C. (2015). The Mental Healt Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) a measure of well-being in the Italian context. Social Indicators Research, 121(1) 291-312. doi: 1.1007/s11205-014-0629-3
Rhemtulla, M., Brosseau-Liard, P. y Savalei, V. (2012). When Can Categorical Variables Be Treated as Continuous? A Comparison of Robust Continuous and Categorical SEM Estimation Methods Under Suboptimal Conditions. American Psychological Association, 17(3), 354-373.
Organización Mundial de la Salud ( 2016). Salud mental. Temas de salud. Recuperado de: http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/mental_health/es/
Steiger, J. H., y Lind, C. (1980). Statistically based tests for the number of common. Annual meeting of the Psychometric Society. Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Psicométrica, Iowa, Estados Unidos.
Steptoe, A., Deaton, A., y Stone, A. A. (2015). Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing. The Lancet, 385(9968), 640-648. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61489-0
Ten Berge, J.M.F., & Socan, G. (2004). The greatest lower bound to the reliability of a test and the hypothesis of unidimensionality. Psychometrika, 69, 613-625.
Yañez, S., y Cárdenas, M. (2010). Estrategias de aculturación, indicadores de salud mental y bienestar psicológico en un grupo de inmigrantes sudamericanos en Chile. Revista Salud y Sociedad, 1(1) 51-7. Recuperado de: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/4016251.pdf
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Peña Contreras, E. K., Lima Castro, S. E., Bueno Pacheco, G. A., Aguilar Sizer, M. E., Keyes Lee, C., & Arias Medina, W. P. (2017). Reliability and validity of the Mental Health Continuum (MHC-SF) in the Ecuadorian contexts. Ciencias Psicológicas, 11(2), 223–232. https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v11i2.1499
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