About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing |
| Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 |
| Subscales | Psychological wellbeing; Emotional wellbeing; Social wellbeing |
| Description | A self-report questionnaire for positive mental health assessment. |
| Example | How often have you felt happy? |
| Link | http://youthrex.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Adolescent-Mental-Health-Continuum-Short-Form.pdf |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 14 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 7-14 |
| Cost single purchase | Free |
| Cost per child | Free |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | Composit |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | Not reported |
| CFA | 3-factor modified model (Children/Youth sample) Chi-square(72)= 110.28/107.53 CFI= .95/.96 TLI=.94/.95 SRMR=.05 RMSEA=.05 |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Not reported |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | de Carvalho, J. S., Pereira, N. S., Pinto, A. M., & Marôco, J. (2016). Psychometric properties of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form: A Study of Portuguese speaking children/youths. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25(7), 2141–2154. doi:10.1007/s10826-016-0396-7 Keyes, C. L. (2006). Mental health in adolescence: Is America's youth flourishing? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76(3), 395-402. doi:10.1037/0002-9432.76.3.395 |