Háttér és célkitűzések: A pszichológia területén belül a kutatók számos jóllétmérő eszközt alkalm... more Háttér és célkitűzések: A pszichológia területén belül a kutatók számos jóllétmérő eszközt alkalmaznak, de nem mindig világos, hogy ezek mit mérnek, vagy mely eszközök tudnak a legjobban megfelelni a céljaiknak. Az áttekintés egyik célja az eddig létrejött jóllét és mentális egészség modellek és mérőeszközeik szisztematikus azonosítása. További célja a jóllét dimenziók sokféleségének feltárása, és annak leírása, hogy az eszközök kialakítása hogyan módosult az idők során. Az áttekintés módszertana: Szisztematikus keresést, tematikus elemzést és narratív szintézist végeztünk. Adatbázis: Web of Science, Educational Research Information Center [ERIC], ScienceDirect, ProQuest, EBSCO, Medline, Google Scholar. Bevonási kritériumok: 1) pozitív pszichológiai jóllét és mentális egészség elméletek és modellek; 2) ezen modellekhez tartozó pozitív pszichológiai jóllét és mentális egészség mérőeszközök, melyek felnőttekre (≥18 év) szabottak, általánosan alkalmazhatók és elérhetők angol változatba...
Positive psychology has fully examined the flourishing among healthy people but neglected to unde... more Positive psychology has fully examined the flourishing among healthy people but neglected to understand how “optimal human functioning” can apply to the life experiences of a vulnerable person. Considering methodological issues, this article gives a brief overview on how the conceptualization of mental health and mental disorders affects the consideration of strengths along with the presence of dysfunction with the emergence of positive psychology. First, we summarize the shortcomings of the applicability of clinical positive psychology, focusing especially on Hungarian clinical practice. Second, we discuss the problems with the conceptualization of mental health in positive psychological framework. Third, we propose a model, the Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory based on capacities and competences. Finally, we conclude with methodological questions and present a research protocol. The key finding of our review is that the opportunity exists for psychiatrists and psychologi...
According to the Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory (MPMHT), the main pillars of positive... more According to the Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory (MPMHT), the main pillars of positive mental health are global well-being, efficient coping that enables an individual to maintain positive conditions and functioning, savoring capacity, resilience, and dynamic self-regulation. This study presents the validation of a new five-scale mental health test, the Mental Health Test (MHT) that operationalizes MPMHT. The methodology comprised two online cross-sectional studies using self-report questionnaires. Participants in Study I (n = 1,736; 448 males, 1,288 females; mean age 51.3 years; SD = 11.6 years) filled in the MHT, the Flow, the PERMA Questionnaire (PERMA-Profiler), and the Flourishing Scale. Participants in Study II (n = 1,083; 233 males, 847 females; mean age 33.9 years; SD = 12.2 years) filled in the MHT, the Shortened Aspiration Index, the short form of the Beck Depression Inventory, the WHO Well-Being Index, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Purpose in Life Test,...
Introduction: Parental burnout might take place when excessive demands overwhelm the parents’ res... more Introduction: Parental burnout might take place when excessive demands overwhelm the parents’ resources. Aims: To develop and validate the Hungarian version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA-HUN), an instrument designed to measure parental burnout; and to determine the prevalence of parental burnout in Hungary. Methods: Data were collected via an online survey from parents with at least one child living in the household (N = 1215; 82.6% mothers; Mage = 38.68 years; SDage = 6.27 years). Confirmatory factor analysis was used to investigate the factor structure of the PBA-HUN. Results: The four-factor structure of the original PBA was replicated, confirming the following factors: exhaustion in one’s parental role, contrast with one’s parental role, feelings of being fed up, and emotional distancing from one’s children. A second-order model with a higher-order factor representing overall parental burnout also fit the data well. The internal consistency of both the subscale and tot...
Background: The Savoring Beliefs Inventory (SBI) has been widely used to measure attitudes toward... more Background: The Savoring Beliefs Inventory (SBI) has been widely used to measure attitudes towards savoring positive experiences. Aim: Our aim was to develop a short yet reliable and valid form of the inventory for use in circumstances where the application of the full form is not feasible. Methods: We used two separate samples in our cross-sectional research. We used convenient and snowball sampling methods. One sample (n = 3.782, males: 274, females: 3.485, gender not identified: 23, ages ranged from 18 to 86 years, mean: 43.6 years, SD = 13.7 years) completed the original SBI, which consists of 24 items, while the second (n = 825, males: 112, females: 713, ages ranged from 18 to 100, mean: 41.4 years, SD = 11.1 years) completed a shortened form, consisting of 10 items. In the second study, participants also completed other well-being measures so that we could assess external validity. Results: According to our results, the 10-item short form of the SBI has sound psychometric prop...
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
Previous research on sensation seeking (SS) was dominated by a variable-oriented approach indicat... more Previous research on sensation seeking (SS) was dominated by a variable-oriented approach indicating that SS level has a linear relation with a host of problem behaviors. Our aim was to provide a person-oriented methodology—a probabilistic clustering—that enables examination of both inter- and intra-individual differences in not only the level, but also in the pattern of SS. We have applied model-based clustering to a four-semester long longitudinal high school survey ( N = 3334) and to a cross-sectional university survey ( N = 438). The results indicated that impulsive patterns are linked to negative outcomes whereas non-impulsive patterns are associated with positive outcomes. Our study aims to serve as a methodological example on how to apply model-based clustering to examine different types of sensation-seeking patterns. This modern clustering method allows for probabilistic categorization, with continous typicality scores besides cluster membership variables. These typicality s...
Introduction: According to the Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory (MPMHT), the main pilla... more Introduction: According to the Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory (MPMHT), the main pillars of positive mental health are global well-being, efficient coping that enables an individual to maintain positive conditions and functioning, savoring capacity, resilience, and dynamic self-regulation. This study presents the validation of a new five-scale mental health test, the Mental Health Test (MHT) that operationalizes MPMHT.
Method: The methodology comprised two online cross-sectional studies using self-report questionnaires. Participants in Study I (n = 1,736; 448 males, 1,288 females; mean age 51.3 years; SD = 11.6 years) filled in the MHT, the Flow, the PERMA Questionnaire (PERMAProfiler), and the Flourishing Scale. Participants in Study II (n = 1,083; 233 males, 847 females; mean age 33.9 years; SD = 12.2 years) filled in the MHT, the Shortened Aspiration Index, the short form of the Beck Depression Inventory, the WHO Well-Being Index, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Purpose in Life Test, and the Schema Questionnaire–Short Form.
Results: Exploratory factor analysis identified a five-factor structure with 17 items in Study I that was confirmed with excellent fit measures in confirmatory factor analysis in Study II. Both studies indicated a high level of internal consistency (above .70). In each subscale, a minimum part of 44% did not overlap with the set of the other subscales. The content validity of the subscales was confirmed by 10 tests of mental health. We found a positive correlation of the self-regulation and resilience subscales with age, while women showed a higher level of savoring than men at all age levels. When Study I was replicated after two weeks and again after 11 months, excellent internal consistency and good test–retest correlation values of the MHT scales were found.
Conclusion: The MHT can thus be considered a reliable and valid measurement tool for mental health. There are competencies behind the different components of mental health which could be strengthened by their nature. The opportunity exists to embrace vulnerability as part of the continuum of human experiences.
Keywords: mental health, Mental Health Test, Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory, positive psychology, mental health assessments
Theoretical background: One of the most significant achievements of positive psychology, which de... more Theoretical background: One of the most significant achievements of positive psychology, which defines itself as the science of happiness and human strengths, is the creation of a taxonomy of character strengths and virtues. Aim: The study investigated the factor structure of character strengths measure as well as well as demographic correlates of the virtues in a Hungarian sample. Method: Participants in three self-reported questionnaire-based online cross-sectional studies (Ʃn = 10911) filled in the VIA-H, the Global Well-being Scale, Huppert’s and Diener’s flourishing scales, the Positivity Scale, and the Shortened Psychological Immune Competence questionnaire. Results: The exploratory factor analysis and the confirmatory factor analyzes performed on the subsamples and on the aggregate sample, provided evidence for four factors (eigenvalues: 10.82, 1.68, 1.21, and 1.09; cumulative explained variance ratio: 61.55%): Humanity, Wisdom and Knowledge, Temperance, Spirituality and Tran...
Theoretical background: One of the most significant achievements of positive psychology, which de... more Theoretical background: One of the most significant achievements of positive psychology, which defines itself as the science of happiness and human strengths, is the creation of a taxonomy of character strengths and virtues. Aim: The study investigated the factor structure of character strengths measure as well as well as demographic correlates of the virtues in a Hungarian sample. Method: Participants in three self-reported questionnaire-based online cross-sectional studies (Ʃn = 10911) filled in the VIA-H, the Global Well-being Scale, Huppert’s and Diener’s flourishing scales, the Positivity Scale, and the Shortened Psychological Immune Competence questionnaire. Results: The exploratory factor analysis and the confirmatory factor analyzes performed on the subsamples and on the aggregate sample, provided evidence for four factors (eigenvalues: 10.82, 1.68, 1.21, and 1.09; cumulative explained variance ratio: 61.55%): Humanity, Wisdom and Knowledge, Temperance, Spirituality and Tran...
Subjective well-being (SWB) has been studied among adults using a variety of selfreported methods... more Subjective well-being (SWB) has been studied among adults using a variety of selfreported methods. However, there are relatively few tests of SWB available for children. Measuring SWB is also important in the school environment, but there is no valid and reliable Hungarian test for elementary schoolchildren. The aim of the study presented in this paper was to adapt the School Children’s Happiness Inventory (Ivens, 2007) to Hungarian and to construct a shorter version of the test. A multistep test reduction yielded a 12 items version that had excellent fit measures in confirmative factor analysis and high level Cronbach’s alphas in all grade groups. The validity of the new test was confirmed by means of a mental health test also developed for children. Concordant validity was confirmed by the significant correlations between the subscales of the new test and the Flow item of the mental health test. An interesting additional result is that SWB is in a negative relationship with age am...
Vargha András könyve érthetően, tömören és az elemzések gyakorlatához részletes útmutatót nyújtva... more Vargha András könyve érthetően, tömören és az elemzések gyakorlatához részletes útmutatót nyújtva vezeti be az olvasót a többváltozós lineáris regresszió, a nemlineáris regresszió, a variancia- és kovarianciaelemzés, a főkomponens-analízis, a feltáró és konfirmatív faktorelemzés, végül a változók hierarchikus klaszterelemzése alkalmazásába
Elméleti háttér: Seligman PERMA modelljét 2016-ban operacionalizálták. Ennek a mérőeszköznek a ma... more Elméleti háttér: Seligman PERMA modelljét 2016-ban operacionalizálták. Ennek a mérőeszköznek a magyar adaptációját végeztük el a nemzetközileg publikált tapasztalatok és egy rendelkezésre álló hozzáférési mintavétel segítségével. Cél: A PERMA Jóllét Profil kérdőív átfogó pszichometriai ellenőrzése (konfirmatív, megbízhatósági és érvényességi vizsgá lata). Módszerek: Online keresztmetszeti kérdőíves vizsgálat (n = 1540, férfi: 25,4%, nő: 74,6%, átlagéletkor = 52,0 év; SD = 11,3 év). Mérőeszközök: A demográfiai és testi/lelki egészségre vonatkozó kérdéseken kívül az elemzésbe bevont változók az alábbi kérdőívek voltak: Mentális Egészség Teszt, Globális Jóllét Kérdőív, Diener-féle Virágzás skála, Rövidített Savoring Hit Kérdőív, a Rövidített Pszichológiai Immunrendszer Kérdőív. Az elemzés során mind a PERMA ötfaktoros alap-, mind a Negatív érzelmekkel és Egészséggel kiegészített, bővített modelljének a konfirmatív faktorelemzését is elvégeztük. Eredmények: A PERMA öt, illetve öt plusz ...
Elméleti háttér: A mentális egészség egyfajta jóllét biológiai, pszichológiai, társadalmi és spir... more Elméleti háttér: A mentális egészség egyfajta jóllét biológiai, pszichológiai, társadalmi és spirituális szinten, ezen kívül pedig képesség a pozitív állapotok fenntartására és megélésére, amelyhez a hatékony megküzdés és savoring, valamint a reziliencia és a dinamikus önszabályozás jelenléte is társul. A pozitív pszichológia egyik feladata, hogy érvényes teszteket dolgozzon ki a mentális egészség mérésére. Cél: A Mentális Egészség Teszt (MET) legújabb változatának átfogó pszichometriai ellenőrzése. Módszer: Két, online módon lefolytatott kérdőíves keresztmetszeti vizsgálat. I. 1540 fő (391 férfi, 1149 nő; átlagéletkor 52,0 év, SD = 11,3 év) demográfiai, valamint testi és lelki egészségre vonatkozó kérdések mellett kitöltötte az alábbi kérdőíveket: MET, PERMA Kérdőív, Globális Jóllét Kérdőív, Diener-féle Virágzás skála, Rövidített Savoring Hit Kérdőív, Rövidített Pszichológiai Immunrendszer Kérdőív. II. 1083 fő (233 férfi, 847 nő; átlagéletkor 33,9 év, SD = 12,2 év) demográfiai, a v...
article i nfo Previous studies suggest that women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) differ from th... more article i nfo Previous studies suggest that women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) differ from those without PMS in personality dimensions, but it is not clear what role personality plays in the background of premenstrual symptomatology. Our purpose was to examine personality dimensions measured by the Tridimensional Character Inventory (TCI) in psychiatrically healthy women not suffering from premenstrual dysphoric disorder (NS), self-directedness (S), cooperation (C) and self-transcendence (ST), and lower in the harm avoidance (HA) scale. Elevated scores of women with higher symptom severity in the late luteal phase in NS, S, STand C scales and lower HA scores are in contrast with previous results on personality traits associated with PMS. However, we investigated psychiatrically healthy women. Therefore, our results suggest that this personality profile is a protective factor against developing serious psychiatric symptoms when experiencing a distressing and more marked symptomat...
The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse, Jan 3, 2016
Despite the increasing popularity of video game playing, little is known about the similarities a... more Despite the increasing popularity of video game playing, little is known about the similarities and differences between online and offline video game players. The aims of this study were (i) to test the applicability and the measurement invariance of the previously developed Problematic Online Gaming Questionnaire (POGQ) in both online and offline gamers and to (ii) examine the differences in these groups. Video game use habits and POGQ were assessed in a sample of 1,964 (71% male) adolescent videogame players. Those gamers who played at least sometimes in an online context were considered "online gamers," while those who played videogames exclusively offline were considered "offline gamers." Confirmatory factor analysis supported the measurement invariance across online and offline videogame players. According to the multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) model, online gamers were more likely to score higher on overuse, interpersonal conflict, and social is...
Háttér és célkitűzések: A pszichológia területén belül a kutatók számos jóllétmérő eszközt alkalm... more Háttér és célkitűzések: A pszichológia területén belül a kutatók számos jóllétmérő eszközt alkalmaznak, de nem mindig világos, hogy ezek mit mérnek, vagy mely eszközök tudnak a legjobban megfelelni a céljaiknak. Az áttekintés egyik célja az eddig létrejött jóllét és mentális egészség modellek és mérőeszközeik szisztematikus azonosítása. További célja a jóllét dimenziók sokféleségének feltárása, és annak leírása, hogy az eszközök kialakítása hogyan módosult az idők során. Az áttekintés módszertana: Szisztematikus keresést, tematikus elemzést és narratív szintézist végeztünk. Adatbázis: Web of Science, Educational Research Information Center [ERIC], ScienceDirect, ProQuest, EBSCO, Medline, Google Scholar. Bevonási kritériumok: 1) pozitív pszichológiai jóllét és mentális egészség elméletek és modellek; 2) ezen modellekhez tartozó pozitív pszichológiai jóllét és mentális egészség mérőeszközök, melyek felnőttekre (≥18 év) szabottak, általánosan alkalmazhatók és elérhetők angol változatba...
Positive psychology has fully examined the flourishing among healthy people but neglected to unde... more Positive psychology has fully examined the flourishing among healthy people but neglected to understand how “optimal human functioning” can apply to the life experiences of a vulnerable person. Considering methodological issues, this article gives a brief overview on how the conceptualization of mental health and mental disorders affects the consideration of strengths along with the presence of dysfunction with the emergence of positive psychology. First, we summarize the shortcomings of the applicability of clinical positive psychology, focusing especially on Hungarian clinical practice. Second, we discuss the problems with the conceptualization of mental health in positive psychological framework. Third, we propose a model, the Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory based on capacities and competences. Finally, we conclude with methodological questions and present a research protocol. The key finding of our review is that the opportunity exists for psychiatrists and psychologi...
According to the Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory (MPMHT), the main pillars of positive... more According to the Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory (MPMHT), the main pillars of positive mental health are global well-being, efficient coping that enables an individual to maintain positive conditions and functioning, savoring capacity, resilience, and dynamic self-regulation. This study presents the validation of a new five-scale mental health test, the Mental Health Test (MHT) that operationalizes MPMHT. The methodology comprised two online cross-sectional studies using self-report questionnaires. Participants in Study I (n = 1,736; 448 males, 1,288 females; mean age 51.3 years; SD = 11.6 years) filled in the MHT, the Flow, the PERMA Questionnaire (PERMA-Profiler), and the Flourishing Scale. Participants in Study II (n = 1,083; 233 males, 847 females; mean age 33.9 years; SD = 12.2 years) filled in the MHT, the Shortened Aspiration Index, the short form of the Beck Depression Inventory, the WHO Well-Being Index, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Purpose in Life Test,...
Introduction: Parental burnout might take place when excessive demands overwhelm the parents’ res... more Introduction: Parental burnout might take place when excessive demands overwhelm the parents’ resources. Aims: To develop and validate the Hungarian version of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA-HUN), an instrument designed to measure parental burnout; and to determine the prevalence of parental burnout in Hungary. Methods: Data were collected via an online survey from parents with at least one child living in the household (N = 1215; 82.6% mothers; Mage = 38.68 years; SDage = 6.27 years). Confirmatory factor analysis was used to investigate the factor structure of the PBA-HUN. Results: The four-factor structure of the original PBA was replicated, confirming the following factors: exhaustion in one’s parental role, contrast with one’s parental role, feelings of being fed up, and emotional distancing from one’s children. A second-order model with a higher-order factor representing overall parental burnout also fit the data well. The internal consistency of both the subscale and tot...
Background: The Savoring Beliefs Inventory (SBI) has been widely used to measure attitudes toward... more Background: The Savoring Beliefs Inventory (SBI) has been widely used to measure attitudes towards savoring positive experiences. Aim: Our aim was to develop a short yet reliable and valid form of the inventory for use in circumstances where the application of the full form is not feasible. Methods: We used two separate samples in our cross-sectional research. We used convenient and snowball sampling methods. One sample (n = 3.782, males: 274, females: 3.485, gender not identified: 23, ages ranged from 18 to 86 years, mean: 43.6 years, SD = 13.7 years) completed the original SBI, which consists of 24 items, while the second (n = 825, males: 112, females: 713, ages ranged from 18 to 100, mean: 41.4 years, SD = 11.1 years) completed a shortened form, consisting of 10 items. In the second study, participants also completed other well-being measures so that we could assess external validity. Results: According to our results, the 10-item short form of the SBI has sound psychometric prop...
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
Previous research on sensation seeking (SS) was dominated by a variable-oriented approach indicat... more Previous research on sensation seeking (SS) was dominated by a variable-oriented approach indicating that SS level has a linear relation with a host of problem behaviors. Our aim was to provide a person-oriented methodology—a probabilistic clustering—that enables examination of both inter- and intra-individual differences in not only the level, but also in the pattern of SS. We have applied model-based clustering to a four-semester long longitudinal high school survey ( N = 3334) and to a cross-sectional university survey ( N = 438). The results indicated that impulsive patterns are linked to negative outcomes whereas non-impulsive patterns are associated with positive outcomes. Our study aims to serve as a methodological example on how to apply model-based clustering to examine different types of sensation-seeking patterns. This modern clustering method allows for probabilistic categorization, with continous typicality scores besides cluster membership variables. These typicality s...
Introduction: According to the Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory (MPMHT), the main pilla... more Introduction: According to the Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory (MPMHT), the main pillars of positive mental health are global well-being, efficient coping that enables an individual to maintain positive conditions and functioning, savoring capacity, resilience, and dynamic self-regulation. This study presents the validation of a new five-scale mental health test, the Mental Health Test (MHT) that operationalizes MPMHT.
Method: The methodology comprised two online cross-sectional studies using self-report questionnaires. Participants in Study I (n = 1,736; 448 males, 1,288 females; mean age 51.3 years; SD = 11.6 years) filled in the MHT, the Flow, the PERMA Questionnaire (PERMAProfiler), and the Flourishing Scale. Participants in Study II (n = 1,083; 233 males, 847 females; mean age 33.9 years; SD = 12.2 years) filled in the MHT, the Shortened Aspiration Index, the short form of the Beck Depression Inventory, the WHO Well-Being Index, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Purpose in Life Test, and the Schema Questionnaire–Short Form.
Results: Exploratory factor analysis identified a five-factor structure with 17 items in Study I that was confirmed with excellent fit measures in confirmatory factor analysis in Study II. Both studies indicated a high level of internal consistency (above .70). In each subscale, a minimum part of 44% did not overlap with the set of the other subscales. The content validity of the subscales was confirmed by 10 tests of mental health. We found a positive correlation of the self-regulation and resilience subscales with age, while women showed a higher level of savoring than men at all age levels. When Study I was replicated after two weeks and again after 11 months, excellent internal consistency and good test–retest correlation values of the MHT scales were found.
Conclusion: The MHT can thus be considered a reliable and valid measurement tool for mental health. There are competencies behind the different components of mental health which could be strengthened by their nature. The opportunity exists to embrace vulnerability as part of the continuum of human experiences.
Keywords: mental health, Mental Health Test, Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory, positive psychology, mental health assessments
Theoretical background: One of the most significant achievements of positive psychology, which de... more Theoretical background: One of the most significant achievements of positive psychology, which defines itself as the science of happiness and human strengths, is the creation of a taxonomy of character strengths and virtues. Aim: The study investigated the factor structure of character strengths measure as well as well as demographic correlates of the virtues in a Hungarian sample. Method: Participants in three self-reported questionnaire-based online cross-sectional studies (Ʃn = 10911) filled in the VIA-H, the Global Well-being Scale, Huppert’s and Diener’s flourishing scales, the Positivity Scale, and the Shortened Psychological Immune Competence questionnaire. Results: The exploratory factor analysis and the confirmatory factor analyzes performed on the subsamples and on the aggregate sample, provided evidence for four factors (eigenvalues: 10.82, 1.68, 1.21, and 1.09; cumulative explained variance ratio: 61.55%): Humanity, Wisdom and Knowledge, Temperance, Spirituality and Tran...
Theoretical background: One of the most significant achievements of positive psychology, which de... more Theoretical background: One of the most significant achievements of positive psychology, which defines itself as the science of happiness and human strengths, is the creation of a taxonomy of character strengths and virtues. Aim: The study investigated the factor structure of character strengths measure as well as well as demographic correlates of the virtues in a Hungarian sample. Method: Participants in three self-reported questionnaire-based online cross-sectional studies (Ʃn = 10911) filled in the VIA-H, the Global Well-being Scale, Huppert’s and Diener’s flourishing scales, the Positivity Scale, and the Shortened Psychological Immune Competence questionnaire. Results: The exploratory factor analysis and the confirmatory factor analyzes performed on the subsamples and on the aggregate sample, provided evidence for four factors (eigenvalues: 10.82, 1.68, 1.21, and 1.09; cumulative explained variance ratio: 61.55%): Humanity, Wisdom and Knowledge, Temperance, Spirituality and Tran...
Subjective well-being (SWB) has been studied among adults using a variety of selfreported methods... more Subjective well-being (SWB) has been studied among adults using a variety of selfreported methods. However, there are relatively few tests of SWB available for children. Measuring SWB is also important in the school environment, but there is no valid and reliable Hungarian test for elementary schoolchildren. The aim of the study presented in this paper was to adapt the School Children’s Happiness Inventory (Ivens, 2007) to Hungarian and to construct a shorter version of the test. A multistep test reduction yielded a 12 items version that had excellent fit measures in confirmative factor analysis and high level Cronbach’s alphas in all grade groups. The validity of the new test was confirmed by means of a mental health test also developed for children. Concordant validity was confirmed by the significant correlations between the subscales of the new test and the Flow item of the mental health test. An interesting additional result is that SWB is in a negative relationship with age am...
Vargha András könyve érthetően, tömören és az elemzések gyakorlatához részletes útmutatót nyújtva... more Vargha András könyve érthetően, tömören és az elemzések gyakorlatához részletes útmutatót nyújtva vezeti be az olvasót a többváltozós lineáris regresszió, a nemlineáris regresszió, a variancia- és kovarianciaelemzés, a főkomponens-analízis, a feltáró és konfirmatív faktorelemzés, végül a változók hierarchikus klaszterelemzése alkalmazásába
Elméleti háttér: Seligman PERMA modelljét 2016-ban operacionalizálták. Ennek a mérőeszköznek a ma... more Elméleti háttér: Seligman PERMA modelljét 2016-ban operacionalizálták. Ennek a mérőeszköznek a magyar adaptációját végeztük el a nemzetközileg publikált tapasztalatok és egy rendelkezésre álló hozzáférési mintavétel segítségével. Cél: A PERMA Jóllét Profil kérdőív átfogó pszichometriai ellenőrzése (konfirmatív, megbízhatósági és érvényességi vizsgá lata). Módszerek: Online keresztmetszeti kérdőíves vizsgálat (n = 1540, férfi: 25,4%, nő: 74,6%, átlagéletkor = 52,0 év; SD = 11,3 év). Mérőeszközök: A demográfiai és testi/lelki egészségre vonatkozó kérdéseken kívül az elemzésbe bevont változók az alábbi kérdőívek voltak: Mentális Egészség Teszt, Globális Jóllét Kérdőív, Diener-féle Virágzás skála, Rövidített Savoring Hit Kérdőív, a Rövidített Pszichológiai Immunrendszer Kérdőív. Az elemzés során mind a PERMA ötfaktoros alap-, mind a Negatív érzelmekkel és Egészséggel kiegészített, bővített modelljének a konfirmatív faktorelemzését is elvégeztük. Eredmények: A PERMA öt, illetve öt plusz ...
Elméleti háttér: A mentális egészség egyfajta jóllét biológiai, pszichológiai, társadalmi és spir... more Elméleti háttér: A mentális egészség egyfajta jóllét biológiai, pszichológiai, társadalmi és spirituális szinten, ezen kívül pedig képesség a pozitív állapotok fenntartására és megélésére, amelyhez a hatékony megküzdés és savoring, valamint a reziliencia és a dinamikus önszabályozás jelenléte is társul. A pozitív pszichológia egyik feladata, hogy érvényes teszteket dolgozzon ki a mentális egészség mérésére. Cél: A Mentális Egészség Teszt (MET) legújabb változatának átfogó pszichometriai ellenőrzése. Módszer: Két, online módon lefolytatott kérdőíves keresztmetszeti vizsgálat. I. 1540 fő (391 férfi, 1149 nő; átlagéletkor 52,0 év, SD = 11,3 év) demográfiai, valamint testi és lelki egészségre vonatkozó kérdések mellett kitöltötte az alábbi kérdőíveket: MET, PERMA Kérdőív, Globális Jóllét Kérdőív, Diener-féle Virágzás skála, Rövidített Savoring Hit Kérdőív, Rövidített Pszichológiai Immunrendszer Kérdőív. II. 1083 fő (233 férfi, 847 nő; átlagéletkor 33,9 év, SD = 12,2 év) demográfiai, a v...
article i nfo Previous studies suggest that women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) differ from th... more article i nfo Previous studies suggest that women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) differ from those without PMS in personality dimensions, but it is not clear what role personality plays in the background of premenstrual symptomatology. Our purpose was to examine personality dimensions measured by the Tridimensional Character Inventory (TCI) in psychiatrically healthy women not suffering from premenstrual dysphoric disorder (NS), self-directedness (S), cooperation (C) and self-transcendence (ST), and lower in the harm avoidance (HA) scale. Elevated scores of women with higher symptom severity in the late luteal phase in NS, S, STand C scales and lower HA scores are in contrast with previous results on personality traits associated with PMS. However, we investigated psychiatrically healthy women. Therefore, our results suggest that this personality profile is a protective factor against developing serious psychiatric symptoms when experiencing a distressing and more marked symptomat...
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Despite the increasing popularity of video game playing, little is known about the similarities a... more Despite the increasing popularity of video game playing, little is known about the similarities and differences between online and offline video game players. The aims of this study were (i) to test the applicability and the measurement invariance of the previously developed Problematic Online Gaming Questionnaire (POGQ) in both online and offline gamers and to (ii) examine the differences in these groups. Video game use habits and POGQ were assessed in a sample of 1,964 (71% male) adolescent videogame players. Those gamers who played at least sometimes in an online context were considered "online gamers," while those who played videogames exclusively offline were considered "offline gamers." Confirmatory factor analysis supported the measurement invariance across online and offline videogame players. According to the multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) model, online gamers were more likely to score higher on overuse, interpersonal conflict, and social is...
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Method: The methodology comprised two online cross-sectional studies using self-report questionnaires. Participants in Study I (n = 1,736; 448 males, 1,288 females; mean age 51.3 years; SD = 11.6 years) filled in the MHT, the Flow, the PERMA Questionnaire (PERMAProfiler), and the Flourishing Scale. Participants in Study II (n = 1,083; 233 males, 847 females; mean age 33.9 years; SD = 12.2 years) filled in the MHT, the Shortened Aspiration Index, the short form of the Beck Depression Inventory, the WHO Well-Being Index, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Purpose in Life Test, and the Schema Questionnaire–Short Form.
Results: Exploratory factor analysis identified a five-factor structure with 17 items in Study I that was confirmed with excellent fit measures in confirmatory factor analysis in Study II. Both studies indicated a high level of internal consistency (above .70). In each subscale, a minimum part of 44% did not overlap with the set of the other subscales. The content validity of the subscales was confirmed by 10 tests of mental health. We found a positive correlation of the self-regulation and resilience subscales with age, while women showed a higher level of savoring than men at all age levels. When Study I was replicated after two weeks and again after 11 months, excellent internal consistency and good test–retest correlation values of the MHT scales were found.
Conclusion: The MHT can thus be considered a reliable and valid measurement tool for mental health. There are competencies behind the different components of mental health which could be strengthened by their nature. The opportunity exists to embrace vulnerability as part of the continuum of human experiences.
Keywords: mental health, Mental Health Test, Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory, positive psychology, mental health assessments
Method: The methodology comprised two online cross-sectional studies using self-report questionnaires. Participants in Study I (n = 1,736; 448 males, 1,288 females; mean age 51.3 years; SD = 11.6 years) filled in the MHT, the Flow, the PERMA Questionnaire (PERMAProfiler), and the Flourishing Scale. Participants in Study II (n = 1,083; 233 males, 847 females; mean age 33.9 years; SD = 12.2 years) filled in the MHT, the Shortened Aspiration Index, the short form of the Beck Depression Inventory, the WHO Well-Being Index, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Purpose in Life Test, and the Schema Questionnaire–Short Form.
Results: Exploratory factor analysis identified a five-factor structure with 17 items in Study I that was confirmed with excellent fit measures in confirmatory factor analysis in Study II. Both studies indicated a high level of internal consistency (above .70). In each subscale, a minimum part of 44% did not overlap with the set of the other subscales. The content validity of the subscales was confirmed by 10 tests of mental health. We found a positive correlation of the self-regulation and resilience subscales with age, while women showed a higher level of savoring than men at all age levels. When Study I was replicated after two weeks and again after 11 months, excellent internal consistency and good test–retest correlation values of the MHT scales were found.
Conclusion: The MHT can thus be considered a reliable and valid measurement tool for mental health. There are competencies behind the different components of mental health which could be strengthened by their nature. The opportunity exists to embrace vulnerability as part of the continuum of human experiences.
Keywords: mental health, Mental Health Test, Maintainable Positive Mental Health Theory, positive psychology, mental health assessments