Development and validation of the Chinese mental health value scale: a tool for culturally-informed psychological assessment.

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-24 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1417443

Yujia Lei, Changming Duan, Kehan Shen

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Abstract

Background: Mental health values play a significant role in defining, promoting, and intervening in mental health. As part of an individual's value system, these values are inherently cultural. However, they remain underexplored in Chinese culture context, particularly among the large young adult population of university students. A culturally informed tool to assess mental health values is much needed to support China's efforts in promoting mental health among college students.

Methods: Four steps were taken to complete the Chinese Mental Health Value Scale (CMHVS) development, namely, item pool construction including expert reviews, a pilot study for item revision and selection, data collection for explorative and confirmatory factor analyses, and validity testing.

Results: A 35-item, seven-factor model was identified with high reliability (Cronbach's alpha of 0.96), and evidence for convergent validity. The seven factors were Expected Self, Relating to Others, Life Principles, Family, Purpose and Meaning, Achievement, and Communication.

Conclusion: The CMHVS provides a culturally grounded method for assessing mental health values in Chinese university students. It has potential applications in research and clinical settings, improving culturally sensitive mental health promotion and intervention.

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Frontiers in Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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5.30

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13.20%

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7396

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14 weeks

期刊介绍： Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.