Adaptation into Spanish of the Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) and preliminary validation in a student sample
- 27 July 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Quality of Life Research
- Vol. 22 (5) , 1099-1104
Abstract
There is growing interest in the assessment of positive mental health as a global indicator of societal wealth. We aimed to adapt the Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale (WEMWBS) into Spanish and to perform a preliminary evaluation of its metric properties.Keywords
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