Internal construct validity of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): a Rasch analysis using data from the Scottish Health Education Population Survey

Stewart‐Brown, Sarah; Tennant, Alan; Tennant, Ruth; Platt, Stephen; Parkinson, Jane; Weich, Scott

doi:10.1186/1477-7525-7-15

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Internal construct validity of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): a Rasch analysis using data from the Scottish Health Education Population Survey

Published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes • Feb 19, 2009

Authors:

Sarah Stewart‐Brown

Alan Tennant

Ruth Tennant

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) was developed to meet demand for instruments to measure mental well-being. It comprises 14 positively phrased Likert-style items and fulfils classic criteria for scale development. We report here the internal construct validity of WE...

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Rasch model

Likert scale

Feeling

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