ArticlePsychology research and behavior management2023
The General Mattering Scale, the Anti-Mattering Scale, and the Fear of Not Mattering Inventory: Psychometric Properties and Links with Distress and Hope Among Chinese University Students.
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- Workplace Mental Health and Social Media Addictive Behaviours: The Application of Mattering Theory.The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Associations between Mattering Dimensions and Loneliness in Adolescents: Bidirectional Effects at between- and Within-Person Levels.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Psychometric analyses of the general mattering scale, anti-mattering scale, and the fear of not mattering inventory in Chinese youth.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The relationship between specific problematic internet use and hope: academic exhaustion as mediator and mattering as moderator among Chinese university students.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Anti-mattering mediates the relationship between social-responsibility misalignments and mental health problems in young people.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Traumatic events and psychological wellbeing among Palestinians: the moderating roles of mattering, anti-mattering and posttraumatic growth.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
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- The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 8: investigating its cutoff scores in relevance to loneliness and burnout among dementia family caregivers.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Purpose: Mattering is essential to university students' mental health. Feeling valued by others or unimportant can affect their overall well-being. However, most measures for assessing mattering have been developed and tested in Western countries, with limited evaluation of the measures when administered to university students in other regions. This study evaluated the reliability and validity of three mattering-related instruments - the General Mattering Scale (GMS), Anti-Mattering Scale (AMS), and Fear of Not Mattering Inventory (FNMI) among Chinese university students using classical test theory and Rasch analysis. Methods: The study comprised 3594 university students from 19 universities across 13 provinces in mainland China, with a balanced gender distribution of 47.2% females and 52.8% males. Participants' ages ranged from 18 to 37, averaging 20.02 years. Most (78.4%) were in four-year programs, with the rest in three-year programs. The majority were freshmen (54.2%), and 86.3% had siblings. The predominant major was engineering (43.4%), followed by roughly equal representations in science, social science, and literature/art. Results: The three scales showed high reliability and factorial validity, with Rasch analysis confirming their unidimensionality and monotonicity, although 2 of 15 items (one GMS item and one FNMI item) had lower fit. There were no substantial differences in item functioning between male and female respondents. Further analyses indicated that mattering, anti-mattering, and fear of not mattering all explained significant unique variance in levels of hope and distress. Conclusion: All three mattering-related instruments are suitable for assessing Chinese students' mattering, anti-mattering, and fear of not mattering and changes in levels of these mattering dimensions. Moreover, each measure represents a unique element of the mattering construct in terms of associations with levels of hope and distress assessed in during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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