Erratum to: psychometric evaluation of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) in Chinese adolescents – a methodological study

Cheng Guo¹Email author,
Göran Tomson^{1, 2},
Jizhi Guo³,
Xiangyun Li³,
Christina Keller⁴ and
Fredrik Söderqvist^{5, 6}

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes201614:1

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-015-0404-4

Received: 28 December 2015

Accepted: 29 December 2015

Published: 7 January 2016

Unfortunately, the original version of this article [1] contained two mistakes. The text on page 5 reading, “Floor effects were negligible for all items (2 %–14 %) while substantial ceiling effects were observed except Item 4 (30 %–40 %)” should instead have read, “Floor effects were negligible (2 %–14 %) while substantial ceiling effects were observed for all items (30 %–40 %) except Item 4”.

In Table 5 (Table 1 here), there is a mistake in the ordering of items. The corrected table can be seen below.

Table 1

Distribution in percentage on the lowest and highest rating scale for the items

Item	Label	Lowest rating	Highest rating
Item 1	Happiness, joy	1.5 %	30.8 %
Item 2	Interested in life	1.7 %	34.1 %
Item 3	Content/satisfied	3.0 %	30.5 %
Item 4	That you have something important to contribute to the society	8.9 %	12.9 %
Item 5	That you belong to a community	13.9 %	33.9 %
Item 6	That our society is becoming a better place for all people	8.2 %	31.7 %
Item 7	That people are basically good	5.7 %	32.6 %
Item 8	That the way society works is logical	5.3 %	32.5 %
Item 9	That you like most of your personality	3.3 %	39.8 %
Item 10	That you are good at managing responsibility for your daily life	3.0 %	36.2 %
Item11	That you have warm and confident relationships with others	2.8 %	37.1 %
Item12	That you experience things that will make you grow as a person	3.6 %	29.4 %
Item13	That you have the confidence to have your own thoughts and that you dare to express them	4.1 %	32.1 %
Item14	That life has a purpose	2.9 %	36.9 %

Notes

Declarations

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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)

Medical Management Centre, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

(2)

Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

(3)

School of Management, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, China

(4)

Jönköping University, International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden

(5)

Center for Clinical Research, Uppsala University, County hospital, Västerås, Sweden

(6)

Competence Center for Health, County Council of Västmanland, Västerås Hospital, Västerås, Sweden

Reference

Guo C, Tomson G, Guo J, Li X, Keller C, Söderqvist F. Psychometric evaluation of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) in Chinese adolescents – a methodological study. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2015;13:198. doi:10.1186/s12955-015-0394-2.PubMedPubMed CentralView ArticleGoogle Scholar

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