Abstract
Ostroft, 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 (∼.7) over a 10-wk. period. Boys reported slightly better mental health than girls, as in the original American research.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 431-440 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Psychological Reports |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2000 |