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Positive Mental Health: Measurement, Prevalence, and Correlates in a Chinese Cultural Context

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Recently in China, the trend has been to start to explore the measurement of positive mental health among ordinary populations. Using mental health continuum–short form (MHC-SF) scale, this chapter studied the status of positive mental health on Chinese people with a sample of 1,981 adults. The findings showed the MHC-SF replicated the three-factor structure of emotional well-being, social well-being, and psychological well-being found in US samples. The internal reliability of the overall MHC-SF scale was 0.94. The percentage of participants in poor mental health (i.e., languishing) was below ten. Roughly 12.7 % of Chinese flourishing adults scored more than 22 on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D). It might to be a distinctive characteristic of adult mental health in a Chinese cultural context that their score of positive mental health is high as well as their score on depression.

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  1. School of Education and Management, Yunnan Normal University, Yunnan, China

    Ke Li Yin

  2. School of Education, Liaoning Normal University, Liaoning, China

    Jia Mei He

  3. School of Nursing, Dali University, Dali, China

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Yin, K.L., He, J.M., Fu, Y.F. (2013). Positive Mental Health: Measurement, Prevalence, and Correlates in a Chinese Cultural Context. In: Keyes, C. (eds) Mental Well-Being. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5195-8_6

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