Evaluation of the mental health continuum-short form (MHC-SF) in Setswana-speaking South Africans

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 181-192

  Keyes, Corey L M ^a   Wissing, Marié ^b   Potgieter, Johan P ^b   Temane, Michael ^b   Kruger, Annamarie ^b   van Rooy, Sinette ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONALITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CONTINUUM SHORT FORM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; SELF EFFICACY; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSLATING; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 47249092869     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.572     Document Type: Article

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