Abstract

The Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S) is a self-report measure comprised of four domains (belief in self, belief in others, emotional competence, and engaged living) developed to evaluate mental health in adolescents in the Western hemisphere. To date, the psychometric properties of the SEHS-S measure have not been tested among Iranian adolescents. The objective of the present study was to translate the SEHS-S measure from English into Persian and explore its psychometric properties with a sample of 373 female high-school students (Grades 11 and 12). Findings of face, content, and construct validity tests demonstrated that the SEHS-S measure had satisfactory validity and suitable reliability. Confirmatory factor analysis showed acceptable goodness-of-fit indices and supported the four domains of the SEHS-S measure in the present sample. Correlations between the four domains of the SEHS-S and the Examination Stress Scale, the EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Well-Being, the Aggression Scale, and the Hope Scale provided convergent and divergent validity for the four domains of the SEHS-S scale. The results of the analysis revealed that the SEHS-S measure has appropriate psychometric properties for assessing mental health in female high-school students.

摘要

次要社会情感健康调查（SEHS-S）是一项自我报告指标，由四个领域（对自我的信念，对他人的信念，情感能力和从事生活的能力）组成，用于评估西半球青少年的心理健康状况。迄今为止，尚未在伊朗青少年中测试SEHS-S量度的心理测量特性。本研究的目的是将SEHS-S量度从英语翻译成波斯语，并通过373名女高中生（11和12年级）的样本来探索其心理测量特性。面部，内容和结构效度测试的结果表明，SEHS-S措施具有令人满意的效度和适当的可靠性。验证性因素分析显示了可接受的拟合优度指标，并支持了本样本中SEHS-S量度的四个领域。SEHS-S的四个领域与考试压力量表，青少年幸福感的EPOCH量度，攻击量表和希望量表之间的相关性为SEHS-S量表的四个领域提供了收敛和不同的有效性。分析结果表明，SEHS-S量度具有适当的心理计量学特性，可用于评估女高中学生的心理健康状况。