Psychometric characteristics of Positive Mental Health Questionnaire (PMHQ) and its relationship with psychological well-being among the Iranian Population

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Hosna Doozandeh ¹ , مریم مشایخ ² , Zeinab Rabbani ^{3 *}

1 - M.A. of psychometrics, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Electronic Campus,Tehran, Iran. [e-mail]
2 - دانشگاه آزاد
3 - Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Islamic Education, Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr Branch

Received: 2025-04-13 Accepted : 2025-05-18

Keywords: positive mental health, psychological well-being, psychometric,

Abstract :

The aim of this research was to investigate the psychometric properties of the latest positive mental health questionnaire (Zabo et al., 2022) and its relationship with psychological well-being in the Iranian student population. For this purpose, a sample of 482 students of Islamic Azad University of Tehran was selected by three-stage cluster sampling method. After preparing the Persian version, it was completed by them. Validity of this questionnaire checked by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The results of exploratory factor analysis, using the principal components method with varimax rotation, showed the presence of five factors in 16 items. The value of KMO index was equal to 0.859 which showed the adequacy of sampling and the correlation matrix of the items. The obtained five factors explained 61.761% of the variance of the whole structure. The reliability of the questionnaire was checked by internal consistency method by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficients. Cronbach's alpha coefficients for five factors of well-being, enjoyment, creative and executive efficiency, self-regulation and resilience are respectively 0.775; 0.641, 0.764, 0.823 and 0.615 and 0.799 was obtained for the whole questionnaire. The confirmatory validity of the questionnaire was checked and confirmed through the correlation between the components and the total score of the mentioned questionnaire with the Ryff's psychological well-being questionnaire. Therefore, the positive mental health questionnaire (PMHQ) in the population of Iranian students has appropriate psychometric properties and can be used in internal studies.

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