Validity and psychometric properties of the Self-Identification as Having a Mental Illness Scale (SELF-I) among currently untreated persons with mental health problems

Nursing students' attitudes to mental health nursing: psychometric properties of a self-report scale.

Negative attitudes toward people experiencing mental illness and mental health nursing as a career option have been recognized as a major barrier to sustaining an adequate psychiatric nursing workforce. This article presents the findings from a prospective observational study that explored the relationship between undergraduate nursing students' (n = 688) attitudes relevant to the mental health...

Psychometric properties of the Positive Mental Health Scale (PMH-scale)

BACKGROUND In recent years, it has been increasingly recognized that the absence of mental disorder is not the same as the presence of positive mental health (PMH). With the PMH-scale we propose a short, unidimensional scale for the assessment of positive mental health. The scale consists of 9 Likert-type items. METHODS The psychometric properties of the PMH-scale were tested in a series of s...

Further Psychometric Evaluation of the Self-Stigma Scale-Short: Measurement Invariance across Mental Illness and Gender

BACKGROUND This study cross-validated the factor structure of the Self-Stigma Scale-Short (SSS-S) in a cohort of patients with mental illness in southern Taiwan. The measurement invariance of the SSS-S factor structure across mental illness and gender was also examined. METHODS The sample consisted of 161 patients with schizophrenia (51.6% males; mean age ± SD = 40.53 ± 10.38 years) and 189 p...

Investigating the Psychometric Properties of Self-Criticism and Self-Reassurance Scale in Iranian Students

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between personality traits and psychological capital with academic adjustment. Methods: The present study was a cross-sectional research. The study population comprised all male and female students studying at the University of Kashan from February to March 2018. A total of 360 (190 females and 170 males) students were selected by clu...

Self-management of mental health problems