World Health Organization Well-being Index (WHO-5)
Cite this measure View Measure| General information | |
| Purpose | The WHO-5 Well-being index is a 5-item measure that assessing subjective psychological well-being. |
| Domain(s) | Goal Pursuit Life Satisfaction Positive Affect Sense of Meaning |
| Target population | Adult |
| Number of items | 5 |
| Administration format | self-report |
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| Availability in other languages | "Africa (Algeria, South Africa), Asia (Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand), Europe (Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western and Central Europe), the Americas (Canada, the US, Brazil, Mexico), the Middle East (Israel, Iran, Lebanon) and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand)."" |
| Fee for use | |
| Free | |
| Related information on use of the measure | |
| Non-exhaustive list of psychometric studies | |
Topp, C. W., Østergaard, S. D., Søndergaard, S., & Bech, P. (2015). The WHO-5 Well-Being Index: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 84(3), 167–176. https://doi.org/10.1159/000376585 Heun, R., Bonsignore, M., Barkow, K., & Jessen, F. (2001). Validity of the five-item WHO Well-Being Index (WHO-5) in an elderly population. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 251(2), 27–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03035123 de Wit, M., Pouwer, F., Gemke, R. J. B. J., Delemarre-van de Waal, H. A., & Snoek, F. J. (2007). Validation of the WHO-5 Well-Being Index in Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Care, 30(8), 2003–2006. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc07-0447 |
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| Additional information | |
https://ogg.osu.edu/media/documents/MB%20Stream/who5.pdf |