Development and validation of the Rapid Positive Mental Health Instrument (R-PMHI) for measuring mental health outcomes in the population

Table 5 Internal and external construct validity by confirmatory factor analysis

	Internal validation sample (n-520)	External validation sample (N = 1925)
		Overall	Age		Gender		Ethnicity
			< 40	= > 40	Women	Men	Chinese	Malay	Indian
I spend time with people I like	0.682	0.699	0.707	0.713	0.72	0.677	0.693	0.665	0.726
I make friends easily	0.697	0.726	0.697	0.754	0.713	0.733	0.738	0.683	0.671
I try to be patient with others	0.608	0.702	0.57	0.808	0.741	0.665	0.688	0.715	0.755
I am willing to share my time with others	0.799	0.845	0.839	0.852	0.839	0.85	0.858	0.811	0.854
I have freedom to make choices that concern my future	0.645	0.735	0.669	0.788	0.74	0.73	0.729	0.779	0.722
How often in the last 2 weeks have you felt ..Calm	0.394	0.447	0.444	0.437	0.493	0.41	0.418	0.539	0.441
X²	35.161	53.728	64.603	36.693	61.928	24.205	69.169	9.461	19.468
df	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
RMSEA	0.075	0.051	0.082	0.055	0.077	0.043	0.076	0.013	0.056
CFI	0.985	0.992	0.977	0.993	0.980	0.995	0.984	1	0.991
TLI	0.974	0.987	0.987	0.987	0.987	0.987	0.987	0.987	0.987

df Degrees of freedom, RMSEA Root mean square error of approximation, CFI Comparative fit index, TLI Tucker-Lewis index

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