Author | Sampling (culture/language) | Reliability (a) | Factor structure |
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Studies of three-factor model | |||
Graetz [22] | 8,998 of young people aged 16–25 (Australians) | – | Anxiety (items 2,5,6,9), social dysfunction (items 1,3,4,7,8,12), and loss of confidence (items 10,11) |
Daradkeh et al. [11] | 157 of university students (Al-Ain/United Arab Emirates) | .86 | Tension and depression (items 5,6,9,10,11), lack of enjoyment (items 1,2,7,8,12), and social dysfunction (items 3,4,11) |
Gao et al. [29] | 120 of outpatients with mental health problems (Chinese) | – | 3-factor model of Graetz [19] |
Sánchez-López and Dresch [23] | 1001 subjects aged 25–65 years (Spanish) | .76 | Successful coping (items 1,3,4,7,8,12), self-esteem (items 6,9,10,11), stress (items 2,5,9) |
El-Metwally et al. [16] | 1019 respondents aged 18 and above (Al Kharj/Saudi Arabia) | – | Social dysfunction (items 1,2.3,4,5,6), anxiety (items 7,8,9,10), and loss of confidence (items 11,12) (Positive items from 1 to 6 and negative items from 7 to 12) |
Studies of two-factor model | |||
Montazeri et al. [24] | 748 of young people aged 18–25 years (Persian/Iranian) | .87 | Psychological distress (items 1, 3,4,7,8,10,11) and social dysfunction (items 2,5,6,7,9,12) |
Doi and Minnawa [34] | 1808 of general adult population aged 20 years or older (Japanese) | .83–.85 | Psychological distress (items 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11) and social dysfunction (items 1, 3, 4,7 and 8) |
Hu et al. [32] | 9204 participants, from the first wave of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and 6451 participants of the Health Survey for England (HSE) | – | Mental disorder (negatively worded items) and positive mental functioning (positively worded items) |
Rajabi & Sheykhshabani [33] | 210 employees of a public organization Aged 25 to 57 years (Iran) | .85 | Social dysfunction (positive items) and psychological distress (negative items) |
Winzer et al. [14] | 23,394 women, 18,274 men, aged 16–29 years (Swedish) | .84 | Positive mental health (PMH) and negative mental health (NMH) |
Qin et al. [26] | 9692 respondents of older adults aged 60 and above (Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Nepali, Odia, Marathi, Malayalam, and Tamil) | .90 | Depression (items 1, 8,9,10,11,12) and social dysfunction (items 2,3,4,5,6,7) |