fredrickson_2015_mhcsf

1,707 responses from 122 respondents to 14 items.

About this table

DescriptionMental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF, 14 items, 0-5), N=122.
ReferenceFredrickson BL, Grewen KM, Algoe SB, Firestine AM, Arevalo JMG, Ma J, Cole SW (2015). Psychological Well-Being and the Human Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity. PLOS ONE 10(3):e0121839.
DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0121839
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0121839

Size and shape

Responses1,707
Respondents122
Items14
Response categories6
Responses per respondent13.992
Responses per item121.929
Density0.999
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)eng

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentMental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF), adult version
Mean words per item8.714
Mean characters per item48.714
Mean characters per response14.167
Flesch-Kincaid grade level288.557

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, fredrickson_2015_mhcsf.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).ID
itemIRW standard Item identifier.made in the build script
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("fredrickson_2015_mhcsf")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("fredrickson_2015_mhcsf")

How to cite

@article{Fredrickson_2015, title={Psychological Well-Being and the Human Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity}, volume={10}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121839}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0121839}, number={3}, journal={PLOS ONE}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={Fredrickson, Barbara L. and Grewen, Karen M. and Algoe, Sara B. and Firestine, Ann M. and Arevalo, Jesusa M. G. and Ma, Jeffrey and Cole, Steve W.}, editor={Uddin, Monica}, year={2015}, month=Mar, pages={e0121839} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv566
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_3 v13.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/gpg7-sg87
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv13.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v43.0