title: Confirmatory factor analysis and reliability of the Mental Health Inventory for Australian adolescents.
abstract: Ostroff, Woolverton, Berry, and Lesko in 1996 examined the adolescent subsample of Veit and Ware's 1983 normative data for the Mental Health Inventory and recommended a two-factor rather than the original five-factor model for the assessment of adolescents' mental health. Analysis of a 30-item version with a new independent sample of 878 adolescents in another English-speaking country supported a two-factor model of psychological well-being and distress for boys and girls. Internal consistency was > .9, and scores were stable (approximately .7) over a 10-wk. period. Boys reported slightly better mental health than girls, as in the original American research.
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Bernd.Heubeck@anu.edu.au
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Heubeck
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Neill
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000339:Affect; D001315:Australia; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires