TY - JOUR AU - Fu, Yan Fen AB - [Recently in China, the trend has been to start to explore the measurement of positive mental health among ordinary populations. Using mental health continuum–short form (MHC-SF) scale, this chapter studied the status of positive mental health on Chinese people with a sample of 1,981 adults. The findings showed the MHC-SF replicated the three-factor structure of emotional well-being, social well-being, and psychological well-being found in US samples. The internal reliability of the overall MHC-SF scale was 0.94. The percentage of participants in poor mental health (i.e., languishing) was below ten. Roughly 12.7 % of Chinese flourishing adults scored more than 22 on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D). It might to be a distinctive characteristic of adult mental health in a Chinese cultural context that their score of positive mental health is high as well as their score on depression.] TI - Mental Well-Being: Positive Mental Health: Measurement, Prevalence, and Correlates in a Chinese Cultural Context DA - 2012-10-03 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/mental-well-being-positive-mental-health-measurement-prevalence-and-ij4ee0ijQd DP - DeepDyve ER -