Mental Health Continuum - Short Form.
MHC-SF
- What it measures
- Positive mental health on three facets - Emotional well-being (3 items), Social well-being (5 items), Psychological well-being (6 items); supports a categorical diagnosis of flourishing / moderate / languishing.
- Length and format
- 14 items. 6-pt frequency (0 never - 5 every day, past month); range 0-70 (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated/validated in 30+ languages incl. NL, PL, PT, ES, ZH, IT, FR, AF (Afrikaans), AR, and many more
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- 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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