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

Table 6 Correlations of the (S)WEMWBS with relevant constructs as indicators for criterion validity¹

Construct Instrument (α)		WEMWBS	SWEMWBS
Mental well-being
WHO-5	(0.93)	0.80^*	0.76^*
Psychological Distress
K10	(0.95)	− 0.68*	− 0.68*
Quality of Life
AQoL-6D: mental component	(0.87)	0.63*	0.69*
AQoL-6D: physical component	(0.86)	0.55*	0.56*
WHOQoL-BREF: physical component	(0.84)	0.56*	0.54*
WHOQoL-BREF: mental component	(0.86)	0.78*	0.76*
WHOQoL-BREF: social component	(0.71)	0.59*	0.55*
WHOQoL-BREF: environmental component	(0.79)	0.63*	0.62*
SF-12: physical component²	(0.85)	0.18*	0.18*
SF-12: mental component²	(0.86)	0.43*	0.42*
Psychological Resources
ASKU (self-efficacy)	(0.90)	0.42*	0.44*
PCI (proactive coping)	(0.86)	0.37*	0.35*
Properties
M (SUM)		3.74 (52.31)	3.84 (26.85)
SD (SUM)		0.71 (9.92)	0.70 (4.92)
Minimum (SUM)		1 (14)	1 (7)
Maximum (SUM)		5 (70)	5 (35)
Skewness (SUM)		- 0.521	- 0.596
Kurtosis (SUM)		0.316	0.424
Cronbach’s Alpha		0.946	0.887
MIC		0.557	0.534

Note. ¹N = 1048. ²n = 1000. WEMWBS = Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale, SWEMWBS = Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale – Short Form, K10 = 10-item Kessler Scale, WHO-5 = WHO-5 Well-Being Index, AQoL = Assessment of Quality of Life instruments, WHOQoL-BREF = World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment Instrument; Brief Version, SF-12 = Short-Form Health Survey, AKSU = Allgemeine Selbstwirksamkeitsskala [engl.: General Self-Efficacy Scale], PCI = Proactive Coping Inventory. M = Mean, SUM = Sum Mean, SD = Standard Deviation, α = Cronbach’s Alpha, MIC = Mean Interitem-Correlation. * p < .001.

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