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Youths’ mental health is important in any society and protecting their mental health help them to be mentally and physically healthy adult who can play their social role as they should. The present study aimed to develop a self-report scale for high school student’s mental health. A pool item of 200 items was developed and after the first edition, 119 items were selected for preliminary scale. The target population of the study was secondery high school students of Alborz, Kermanshah, Eastern Azerbaijan, Sistan & Baluchestan, Fars, and Khorasan Razavi in 2016-17. The sample includes 642 students who were selected by random sampling. Explanatory and confirmatory Factor analysis indicated six-factor structure as the simplest factorial solution that consisted with theoretical framwork. In addition, all the subscale had good reliability which ranged between 0.63 (disruptive behavior) to 0.85 (academic achievement deficit, self-regulation, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and self-harm). In general, results showed good psychometric properties for this mental health scale among high school students. This scale could be used for assessing behavioral and emotional problems for clinical, or research aims among late adolescents in Iran [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
