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

By Corey Keyes, M. Wissing, J. Potgieter, M. Temane, A. Kruger, S. van Rooy. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology

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Effects of positive interventions and orientations to happiness on subjective well-being (2011, methodology): “Eudaimonia emphasises the challenges that individuals encounter as they strive to function to their full potential and realise their unique talents (Keyes et al., 2008).”
Change in level of positive mental health as a predictor of future risk of mental illness. (2010, background): “80) and exhibits good construct and discriminant validity.(40,41) The 4-week test–retest reliability estimates for the short-form scales ranged from 0.”
Mental Illness and Mental Health: The Two Continua Model Across the Lifespan (2009, background): “Instruments The Mental Health Continuum—Short Form (MHC-SF; Keyes 2006; Keyes et al. 2008) consists of 14 items which correspond to our theoretical formulation of emotional, psychological, and social well-being.”
Mental Health and/or Mental Illness: A Scoping Review of the Evidence and Implications of the Dual-Continua Model of Mental Health (2020, methodology): “…in particular validating the MHC-SF (Lim, 2014; Lamers et al., 2011; Petrillo et al., 2015; Lupano Perugini et al., 2017; Karas et al., 2014; Keyes et al., 2008), with other studies investigating the MHI (Heubeck and Neill, 2000; Veit and Ware, 1983), or the potential appropriateness of…”
The bidirectional relation between positive mental health and psychopathology in a longitudinal representative panel study (2015, methodology): “…model of mental illness and mental health (Compton, Smith, Cornish, & Qualls, 1996; Greenspoon & Saklofske, 2001; Headey, Kelley, & Wearing, 1993; Keyes, 2006; Keyes, Eisenberg, Dhingra, Perry, & Dube, 2012; Keyes et al., 2008; Massé et al., 1998; Suldo & Shaffer, 2008; Westerhof & Keyes, 2009).”
Socio-Demographic Variables, General Psychological Well-Being and the Mental Health Continuum in an African Context (2012, methodology): “Holistic well-being, measured by using the General Psychological Well-being Scale (GPWS; Khumalo et al. 2010) and the Mental Health Continuum Short-Form (MHC-SF; Keyes 2002; Keyes et al. 2008 ), was found to be influenced by a number of contextual elements in people’s lives and environment.”
The Impact of COVID-19 on Physical Activity Behavior and Well-Being of Canadians (2020, methodology): “The Mental Health Continuum (MHC-SF) was used to assess overall well-being as well as emotional, psychological and social well-being [20].”
Evaluating the psychometric properties of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF). (2011, methodology): “A first evaluation of the MHC-SF was carried out in four communities in South Africa, showing that the instrument is reliable and valid, as well as confirming the two-continua model of mental health and illness (Keyes et al., 2008).”
Differential relationships in the association of the Big Five personality traits with positive mental health and psychopathology (2012, positive): “…psychopathology and mental health are validated in several studies, including some with confirmatory factor analyses (Greenspoon & Saklofske, 2001; Keyes et al., 2008; Lamers, Westerhof, Bohlmeijer, ten Klooster, & Keyes, 2011; Suldo & Shaffer, 2008), and are even found at the genetic level…”
Mental Health as a Complete State: How the Salutogenic Perspective Completes the Picture (2014, methodology): “…model has also been replicated in a random sample of U.S. adolescents (ages 12–18) with data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics’s Child Development Supplement (Keyes, 2009 ), in Dutch adults (Westerhof & Keyes, 2008 , 2010 ) and in Setswana-speaking South-African adults (Keyes et al., 2008 ).”