About the Measure
Domains | Mental health and wellbeing |
Key stages | Key Stage 5 |
Subscales | This is a unidimensional measure |
Description | A shortened version of WEMWBS, a positively worded measure of subjective wellbeing. This version performed better under Rasch analysis than the original WEMWBS. |
Example | I’ve been feeling optimistic about the future |
Link | https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/platform/wemwbs/development/swemwbs/ |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
No. of items | 7 |
Format | Likert |
Respondent | Self |
Scoring | Standardised |
Time | 0 |
Age | 16-18 |
Cost single purchase | Free |
Cost per child | Free |
Psychometric details
UK norms | Yes |
Cronbach's α | Person S |
Test retest | Not reported |
Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
EFA | Not reported |
CFA | Rasch Partial Credit Model Chi-square(38)=143.75 |
Criterion validity | Not reported |
Construct validity | Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale correlated with Shorter Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale raw scores, r= .95 |
Concurrent validity | Not reported |
Predictive validity | Not reported |
Responsiveness | Yes |
Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
References | (WEMWBS) User guide- Version 2 . Retrieved from http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/platform/wemwbs/researchers/userguide/wemwbs_user_guide_jp_02.02.16.pdf Stewart-Brown, S., Tennant, A., Tennant, R., Platt, S., Parkinson, J., & Weich, S. (2009). Internal construct validity of the Warwick-Edinburgh mental well-being scale (WEMWBS): a Rasch analysis using data from the Scottish health education population survey. Health and quality of life outcomes, 7(1), 15. doi:10.1186/1477-7525-7-15 |