Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale.

WEMWBS / SWEMWBS

What it measures

Positive mental well-being covering both hedonic (feelings) and eudaimonic (psychological functioning) aspects; the short form is predominantly eudaimonic and Rasch-scaled.

Length and format

14 (WEMWBS); 7 (SWEMWBS). 5-pt frequency (1 none of the time - 5 all of the time, past 2 weeks); WEMWBS range 14-70; SWEMWBS uses a Rasch metric conversion (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Translated/validated in 30+ languages incl. ES, IT, ZH, AR, FR, BSL (British Sign Language) and many more; widely used in national surveys

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Tennant, R., Hiller, L., Fishwick, R., et al. (2007). The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 5, 63.