Psychometric properties of Iranian Mental Health Scale for students

Document Type : Research Paper

10.22059/japr.2012.52381
Abstract
The purpose of this study is the standardization of National Mental Health Scale as a screening tool for mental health. In this study 5500 students were selected using a relative stratified sampling from large universities of the country and completed the current tool with  another tools. Research tools were: Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS) (Diener et.al, 1985), Life Orientation Test (LOT) (Scheier & Carver, 1985), Spirituality Wellbeing Scale (SWS) (Elison & Palotsian, 1982), Mental Health Inventory (MHI) )Veit & Ware, 1983), Symptom Checklist- 25 (SCL- 25) (Najarian & Dawoudi, 2000), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ- 28) (Taghavi, 2000). Results of Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis indicate the existence of eight factors of positive emotions and well-being, depression, anxiety, OCD, social anxiety, sleep disturbances and educational depression on the scale. Criterion validity and reliability of subscales were adequate. Subscales internal consistency coefficients were attained between 0.74 to 0.91. So it can be concluded that National Scale of Students Mental Health  has adequate  reliability and validity and may be used for mental health evaluation of students community.
Keywords
Iranian Mental Health Scale
Standardization
Psychometric Properties
Scale Development

  • Receive Date 17 August 2011
  • Revise Date 06 January 2015
  • Accept Date 24 June 2012
  • First Publish Date 21 November 2012
  • Publish Date 21 November 2012