The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation
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Summary
WEMWBS is a measure of mental well-being focusing entirely on positive aspects of mental health that offers promise as a short and psychometrically robust scale that discriminated between population groups in a way that is largely consistent with the results of other population surveys.
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- article
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- 2007-11-27
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- 4,375
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- Open access
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Keywords
Cronbach's alpha, Psychology, Population, Scale (ratio), Mental health
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