From: Psychometric properties of the Positive Mental Health Scale (PMH-scale)
Characteristics | Students | Retest samples | Patients | Dresden Predictor Study samples | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Retest sample 1 | Retest sample 2 | Retest sample 3 | Stable healthy | Incidence | Stable mentally ill | Remission | |||
Sample size | 5406 | 167 | 1004 | 1294 | 1547 | 683 | 169 | 232 | 310 |
Age (years): mean (S.D.) | 26.3 (4.0) | 36.7 (12.9) | 43.4 (13.0) | 54.7 (17.1) | 48.9 (8.4) | 22.7 (1.8) | 22.6 (1.8) | 22.7 (1.8) | 22.7 (1.8) |
Gender (%) | |||||||||
Female | 55.5 | 68.9 | 49.9 | 43.9 | 74.8 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Male | 44.5 | 31.1 | 50.1 | 56.1 | 25.2 | - | - | - | - |
Marital status (%) | |||||||||
Single | 30.3 | 12.6 | 34.6 | 21.6 | 8.3 | 35.0 | 40.2 | 37.1 | 35.2 |
Partnership | 40.0 | 36.5 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 7.9 | 60.6 | 56.8 | 57.8 | 59.7 |
Married | 0.3 | 43.7 | 51.7 | 57.0 | 62.8 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 5.2 | 4.8 |
Divorced | 0.3 | 6 | 9.9 | 9.1 | 15.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Widowed | 0 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 11.2 | 5.3 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 |
Occupation (%) | |||||||||
Self-employed | - | 6.7 | - | - | 2.7 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.4 |
Manual worker/technician | - | 8.6 | - | - | 9.3 | 12.5 | 13.7 | 16.0 | 13.7 |
Simple/mid-level employee | - | 66.9 | - | - | 61.5 | 51.4 | 47.9 | 54.3 | 68.3 |
White-collar/executive employee | - | 4.3 | - | - | 13.6 | 4.2 | 2.7 | 4.3 | 5.8 |
Other (students, pensioner etc.) | 100 | 13.5 | 20.5 | 39.4 | 12.7 | 31.6 | 34.2 | 24.5 | 24.5 |
Employment (%) | |||||||||
Full time | - | 66.5 | 47.7 | 32.0 | 45.3 | 29.6 | 26.6 | 27.6 | 28.7 |
Part time | - | 25.1 | 18.4 | 17.25 | 21.3 | 17.7 | 15.4 | 15.5 | 19.0 |
Non-working | - | 8.4 | 6.8 | 8.0 | 15.9 | 50.4 | 54.4 | 49.1 | 46.8 |
Unemployed | - | 0 | 6.5 | 3.3 | 17.5 | 2.4 | 3.6 | 7.8 | 5.5 |