The positive mental health instrument: Development and validation of a culturally relevant scale in a multi-ethnic asian population

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Vaingankar, Janhavi A ^a   Subramaniam, Mythily ^a   Chong, Siow Ann ^a   Abdin, Edimansyah ^a   Orlando Edelen, Maria ^b   Picco, Louisa ^a   Lim, Yee Wei ^b   Phua, Mei Yen ^a   Chua, Boon Yiang ^a   Tee, Joseph Y S ^a   Sherbourne, Cathy ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Singapore)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Instrument development; Item reduction; Item response theory; Multi dimensional; Positive mental health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; RELIGION; WELLBEING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; INDIA; MALAYSIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGAPORE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALAYSIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 80055003775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-9-92     Document Type: Article

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