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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Quantitative Psychology and Measurement
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1417443
This article is part of the Research Topic Measurement in Health Psychology - Volume II View all 12 articles
Development and Validation of the Chinese Mental Health Value Scale: A Tool for Culturally-Informed Psychological Assessment
Provisionally accepted- 1 Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States
- 2 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States
- 3 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
Background: Mental health values play a significant role in defining, promoting, and intervening in mental health. As part of an individual's value system, these values are inherently cultural. However, they remain underexplored in Chinese culture context, particularly among the large young adult population of university students. A culturally informed tool to assess mental health values is much needed to support China's efforts in promoting mental health among college students.Methods: Following the scale development procedures outlined by (DeVellis, 2011), four steps were taken to complete the Chinese Mental Health Value Scale (CMHVS) development, namely, item pool construction including expert reviews, a pilot study for item revision and selection, data collection for explorative and confirmatory factor analyses, and validity testing.Results: A 35-item, seven-factor model was identified with high reliability (Cronbach's alpha of .96), and evidence for convergent validity. The seven factors were Expected Self, Relating to Others, Life Principles, Family, Purpose and Meaning, Achievement, and Communication.The CMHVS provides a culturally grounded method for assessing mental health values in Chinese university students. It has potential applications in research and clinical settings, improving culturally sensitive mental health promotion and intervention.
Keywords: Mental Health, Values, Chinese culture, college students, scale development, wellbeing
Received: 15 Apr 2024; Accepted: 03 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Lei, Duan and Shen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Changming Duan, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 66045, Kansas, United States
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