Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale.
WEMWBS / SWEMWBS
Positive mental well-being covering both hedonic (feelings) and eudaimonic (psychological functioning) aspects; the short form is predominantly eudaimonic and Rasch-scaled.
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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
- 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.
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