Background:

While previous research examining the psychometric properties of Lluch’s original Positive Mental Health Scale has been conducted in other Latin American countries, a similar research in Colombia has not been documented to date.

Objective:

To review the psychometric properties of the Positive Mental Health Scale in Colombian young people.

Method:

Instrumental - psychometric study, with a sample of 886 people (63.4% women) between 13 and 25 years old.

Results:

The factorial analysis [FA] shows a correspondence with the six factors proposed in the original version of the test, with an explained variance of 42.90%, as well as acceptable indicators of reliability for each factor and correlations between items.

Conclusions:

These findings provide empirical evidence in favor of the use of the Positive Mental Health Scale with young people; however, a subsequent validation exercise is needed to provide more robust psychometric indicators.

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