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 |