Warwick-Edinburgh mental well-being scale (WEMWBS)
Cite this measure View MeasureTennant, R., Hiller, L., Fishwick, R. et al. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation. Health Qual Life Outcomes 5, 63 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-5-63
| General information | |
| Purpose | The WEMWBS is a 14 items that “describes the development and validation of a new scale, comprised only of positively worded items relating to different aspects of positive mental health: the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS).” |
| Domain(s) | Goal Pursuit Life Satisfaction Positive Affect Sense of Meaning |
| Target population | Adult |
| Number of items | 14 |
| Administration format | self-report |
| Additional formats | |
| Alternate forms | A 7-item short form version of the measure: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/research/platform/wemwbs/about/wemwbsvsswemwbs/ |
| Availability in other languages | Arabic, Bangla, British Sign Language, Chilean Spanish, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhala, Spanish, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Welsh |
| Fee for use | |
| Free | |
| Related information on use of the measure | |
Registration required to obtain measure: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/research/platform/wemwbs/using |
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| Additional information | |
Not all translations of the measure have been validated. Refer to this website for more information: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/research/platform/wemwbs/using/translations/ |