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 |