UMH2: 100 point mental health scale

Name:

UMH2

Label:

100 point mental health scale

Text:

The respondent mental health scale is derived by summing the responses to five items that ask how often in the past month the respondent had been a very nervous person (NDEPRESA), felt calm or peaceful (NDEPRESB), felt downhearted and blue (NDEPRESC), had been a happy person (NDEPRESD), and felt so down in the dumps that nothing could cheer him or her up (NDEPRESE). The response categories included all of the time (coded 1), most of the time (coded 2), some of the time (coded 3), and none of the time (coded 4). Responses to the questions about feeling calm or peaceful and being a happy person are reverse coded. Responses were totaled, creating a scale score ranging from 5 to 20. Scores for respondents who answered four of the five questions were first standardized to the 20-point scale, then all scores were rescaled, this time to 100 by multiplying by 5. A higher score indicates better mental health. Scores for respondents answering less than four questions were coded as .I (inapplicable).

Question:

 N/A

Response Categories:
Code Label Freq. %
-1 619 1.8%
25 68 0.2%
30 75 0.2%
35 104 0.3%
38 1 0%
40 218 0.6%
44 3 0%
45 283 0.8%
50 519 1.5%
55 851 2.5%
56 11 0%
60 1147 3.3%
63 15 0%
65 2407 7%
69 11 0%
70 3474 10.1%
75 3526 10.3%
80 5303 15.4%
81 28 0.1%
85 5541 16.1%
88 42 0.1%
90 5495 16%
94 12 0%
95 2047 6%
100 2532 7.4%
Total 34332 100%

Disclaimer: The frequencies for this variable are not weighted. They are purely descriptive and may not be representative of the study population. Please use with caution and consult the study documentation.
 

Summary Statistics:
  • total responses: 34332
  • valid: 34332
  • invalid: 0

Source:

This variable was taken from: National Survey of America's Families (NSAF), 2002. You may: