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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
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HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000785
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measurement invariance; General Health Questionnaire; students; mental health
This study examines the differences in mental health issues between students and non-students and evaluates the measurement invariance of a commonly used mental health measure. The findings support the use of instruments for comparing mental health levels and risk factors across different populations.
Understanding how levels, patterns, predictors, and outcomes of mental health issues differs in students relative to non-students can inform more effective and better tailored prevention and intervention for mental health in higher education contexts. However, comparisons of mental health in student and non-student groups depend on the critical but seldom-tested assumption of measurement invariance. In this study, we use data from the UK household longitudinal study (UKLS) to evaluate the measurement invariance of the scores from a commonly used mental health measure: the General Health Questionnaire 12-item version (GHQ-12) across students and nonstudents. Using a bifactor model to take account of wording factors we found measurement invariance up to the scalar level for students and non-student groups. This provides support for the use of instruments for comparing mental health issue levels and candidate risk factors and outcomes across students and non-students.
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