The Construction of Mental Health Inventory for Chinese Elderly
Objective: To develop a standardized inventory for evaluating mental health of Chinese elderly.Methods: The original inventory comprised of 58 items was constructed according to the theoretical proposition that mental health includes 5 major components: personality, emotion, adaptation, interpersonal relationship and cognition. The inventory was administered to a sample of 1100 older people above 55 in the Beijing area.Results: The final inventory included 5 components, consisting of 50 items. Acceptable internal consistency was obtained for total and component scores. Total, component and item scores were highly correlated as expected. The theoretical proposition was supported by factor analysis. Good validity was supported by high correlations between the inventory score and relevant variables in different samples.Conclusion: The mental health inventory for Chinese elderly developed in the present study attains good psychometric properties.
Adopting literature study,analysis and investigation,this article attempts to find out problems and flaws in item establishment,monitoring index and standard for evaluation in Trial Program of Standards for Students Physical Constitution and Health. Suggestions and thoughts to improving this program are made. It is proposed that there should be more tests on health indexes. Cardiovascular and endurance tests should be changed and the monitoring items in rural schools ought to be 12?min run etc.