Development and Psychometric Analysis of Mental Health Scale for Child and Adolescent
- VernacularTitle:儿童青少年心理健康量表的编制和信效度检验
- Author:
Zaohuo CHENG
;
Guozhen YUAN
;
Bixiu YANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
psychometrics;
correlation;
mental health scale;
children;
adolescent;
reliability;
validity
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
1992;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective: To develop Mental Health Scale for Child and Adolescent(MHS-C) and assess it's reliability and validity. Methods: MHS-C were administered to 9278 children and adolescent aged 6-18 years or their parents from 12 Provinces of China, 143 children with mental disorders. 87 children were re-tested with MHS-C at interval of 5 weeks, 30 children were administered MHS-C and Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist as criteria test, 56 children and their parents were administered MHS-C. The reliabilities and validities of the MHS-C were examined using Pearson's correlations and factor analysis. Results: The MHS-C had good reliabilities (re-test reliability 0.713, Crobach ? 0.847,spilit reliability 0.800, rater reliability 0.874); The scores of normal children were higher than that of children with mental disorders on the MHS-C(F=63.34-238.8,P
