Measurement invariance of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) across three cultural groups

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 755-759

  Joshanloo, Mohsen ^a   Wissing, Marié P ^b   Khumalo, Itumeleng P ^b   Lamers, Sanne M A ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Measurement invariance; MHC SF; Positive mental health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881613692     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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