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The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS)

Description:Newly developed scale for assessing positive mental health (mental well-being). A 14 positively worded item scale with five response categories. It covers most aspects of positive mental health (positive thoughts and feelings) currently in the literature, including both hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives.
Date:28 July 2006

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