Revision of attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help scale-short form

Objective To revise the attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help scale-short form(ATSPPH-SF) and to exam the reliability and validity of ATSPPH-SF Chinese revision. Methods Based on studying and analyzing foreign related questionnaires, 1 657 adults from Tianjin were chosen as subjects to exam the reliability and validity of ATSPPH-SF Chinese revision. Results The three-dimensional structure were obtained according to the results of exploratory factor analysis, and the total variance explained amounted to 54.03%. The results of Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the measurement model fit the data well(χ2/df=2.94, RMSEA=0.04, CFI=0.97, GFI=0.98, SRMR=0.01, AGFI=0.97, TLI=0.95, IFI=0.97, NFI=0.96). The cronbach's α coefficients of the questionnaire degreed from.0.71 to 0.78. The retest reliability of the questionnaire degreed from 0.65 to 0.82. Correlation between each item and the total score ranged from 0.32 to 0.63 and the correlations between each dimension and total questionnaire were from 0.67 to 0.82. There was a significant positive correlation with ATSPPH(r=0.67, P<0.01). Conclusion The revised ATSPPH-SF has good reliability and validity, which can satisfy the domestic demand for relevant research and application. Key words: Seeking professional psychological help; Attitude; Scale; Reliability; Validity