Validation of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale for the Mental Health Surveillance (MHS) of German adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health encompasses more than just the absence of mental disorders. Thus, a Mental Health Surveillance (MHS) and reporting system for Germany should monitor mental well-being in addition to psychopathology to capture a more complete picture of population mental health. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) is an internationally established inventory for the integrated assessment of different aspects of mental well-being (i.e., hedonic and eudaimonic) in population samples that has not yet been validated for Germany.

Methods

Using data from a cross-sectional online survey of a convenience sample of N = 1.048 adults aged 18-79 years (51% female) living in Germany, the factorial structure, measurement invariance (age, sex) and psychometric prop

SUBMITTER: Peitz D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11515111 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature