Assessing psychological well-being of college students: Psychometric properties of GHQ-20

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of GHQ 20 in the assessment of psychological well being of Chinese college student. The total sample consisted of 1142 college students from first year to third year at two universities in Beijing. The study consisted of two different studies study one(354 subjects)and two(788 subjects). Results of study one indicated that GHQ 20 consisted of three sub scales, which were GHQ sense of adequacy, GHQ depression and GHQ anxiety. Results of both studies indicated that GHQ 20 was of satisfactory reliability, and the three sub scales possessed either satisfactory or marginal acceptable reliability. Both studies reported a well established validity for GHQ 20 and the sub scales respectively. Based on these findings, we suggested that GHQ 20 could be considered as a satisfactory measure for psychological well being of Chinese college student. The three sub scales could be at least useful measures for student’s psychological well being.

本研究對GHQ 2 0進行了結構分析并檢驗其對中國大學生被試的可信性和有效性。被試取自北京市兩所高校的一至三年級大學生 ,共 114 2人。包括兩個分研究 ,研究一 ( 3 5 4名被試 )和研究二 ( 788名被試 )。研究一的因素分析提取出三個因子 ,它們被分別命名為三個不同的分量表 :GHQ 自我肯定 ,GHQ 憂郁和GHQ 焦慮。兩個研究結果均發現 ,GHQ 2 0的內部一致性滿意 ,其三個分量表的內部一致性或者滿意或者可接受。效度檢驗結果表明 ,GHQ 2 0及三個分量表均具有良好效度。基于上述結果 ,GHQ 2 0可以作為測量中國大學生心理問題的一個較為滿意的工具 ,其分量表亦可作為測量中國大學生不同心理問題的較滿意或至少是可用工具