Mental Health Continuum - Long Form.
MHC-LF
- What it measures
- Comprehensive positive mental health - emotional well-being (7 items) + the 6 Ryff psychological-well-being dimensions (18 items) + the 5 Keyes social-well-being dimensions (15 items).
- Length and format
- 40 items. Mixed Likert/frequency response scales (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted into several languages, though the short form is far more commonly translated
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Keyes, C. L. M. (2002). The mental health continuum: From languishing to flourishing in life. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 43(2), 207-222.
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