About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing |
| Key stages | Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
| Subscales | This is a unidimensional measure |
| Description | The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale was developed to enable the monitoring of mental wellbeing in the general population and the evaluation of projects, programmes and policies which aim to improve mental wellbeing. |
| Example | I’ve been feeling optimistic about the future |
| Link | https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/platform/wemwbs/ |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 14 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 13-18 |
| Cost single purchase | Free |
| Cost per child | Free |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | Yes |
| Cronbach's α | .87 |
| Test retest | After 7-14 days, ICC= .66 (95% CI [.59,.72]) |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | Not reported |
| CFA | Single-factor model Chi-square(48)=48.74 p = 0.44 GFI= 1.00 AGFI> .99 RMSEA= 0.003 |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Mental Health Continuum-Short Form, rho= .57; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, rho= -.44; Kidscreen 27 psychological wellbeing subscale, rho= [.38,.59]; General Health Questionnaire-12, rho= -.45; World Health Organisation-5, r= .57 |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Found in adults but not adolescents |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Clarke, A., Friede, T., Putz, R., Ashdown, J., Martin, S., Blake, A., … Stewart-Brown, S. (2011). Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): Validated for teenage school students in England and Scotland. A mixed methods assessment. BMC Public Health, 11(1). doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-487 NHS Health Scotland (2016) Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (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 |