TY - JOUR
T1 - Keyes's Model of Mental Health With Personal Growth Initiative as a Parsimonious Predictor
AU - Robitschek, Christine
AU - Keyes, Corey L.M.
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - This research addressed issues at the heart of counseling psychology: operationalizing mental health and identifying parsimonious ways of predicting levels of mental health. The primary purpose of the study was to investigate the replicability of the structure of C. L. M. Keyes's (2002) model of mental health in 2 samples of college students (total N = 244 women and 223 men). Results of confirmatory factor analyses supported this 3-factor model of psychological, social, and emotional well-being, consisting of 14 subdimensions. Furthermore, this model was found to be invariant for men and women in both samples. The secondary purpose was to assess the effectiveness of personal growth initiative (PGI; C. Robitschek, 1998) as a parsimonious predictor (i.e., 1 predictor for many outcomes) of these multiple dimensions of mental health. Results of structural equation modeling supported PGI as a parsimonious predictor of Keyes's multidimensional mental health model for men and women in both groups. Limitations are discussed, and implications for research and practice in counseling psychology are presented.
AB - This research addressed issues at the heart of counseling psychology: operationalizing mental health and identifying parsimonious ways of predicting levels of mental health. The primary purpose of the study was to investigate the replicability of the structure of C. L. M. Keyes's (2002) model of mental health in 2 samples of college students (total N = 244 women and 223 men). Results of confirmatory factor analyses supported this 3-factor model of psychological, social, and emotional well-being, consisting of 14 subdimensions. Furthermore, this model was found to be invariant for men and women in both samples. The secondary purpose was to assess the effectiveness of personal growth initiative (PGI; C. Robitschek, 1998) as a parsimonious predictor (i.e., 1 predictor for many outcomes) of these multiple dimensions of mental health. Results of structural equation modeling supported PGI as a parsimonious predictor of Keyes's multidimensional mental health model for men and women in both groups. Limitations are discussed, and implications for research and practice in counseling psychology are presented.
KW - flourishing
KW - mental health
KW - personal growth initiative
KW - subjective well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=65249126940&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/a0013954
DO - 10.1037/a0013954
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:65249126940
SN - 0022-0167
VL - 56
SP - 321
EP - 329
JO - Journal of counseling psychology
JF - Journal of counseling psychology
IS - 2
ER -