Dataset on positive mental health of Indonesian, Malaysian, and Thailand university students

• Main Authors: Tutut Chusniyah, Jas Laile Suzana Jaafar, Apitchaya Chaiwutikornwanich, Dedi Kuswandi, Ari Firmanto, Arif Mustopa, Gebi Angelina Zahra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
• Series: Data in Brief
• Subjects: Mental health; Subjective happiness; Forgiveness; Humility; Information literacy self-efficacy
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920312087

The present data article provides a descriptive and analytical exploration on the links between positive mental health, subjective happiness, forgiveness, humility, and information literacy self-efficacy among 969 undergraduate students from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. There are 355 males and 614 females with an average age of 20.47 years and a standard deviation of 1.87. Respondents are recruited by simple random sampling using face to face method, at one time data retrieval during 2019. The Indonesian, Malaysian and Thailand-version questionnaires were provided to each groups of participants according to their nationality and native language, using back-to-back analysis. The socio-demographic details of the respondents, descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation matrix of all variables in all groups according to country, results of regression analysis of variables, and Kruskal Wallis for all five variables in all groups are provided.