Fourteen positively worded statements about feelings and functioning during the past two weeks. The scale monitors mental wellbeing; it is not a diagnostic screen.
Method and research sourcesWEMWBS covers both feeling good and functioning well: optimism, relaxation, energy, clear thinking, self-acceptance, autonomy, relationships, and interest in life.
All 14 items are positively scored from 1 to 5 and summed. The possible total is 14 to 70; a higher score indicates more positive mental wellbeing during the reference period.
The original validation, official Warwick resource, and a cross-cultural study using the Russian version are listed below.
Ruth Tennant, Louise Hiller, Ruth Fishwick, Stephen Platt, Stephen Joseph, Scott Weich, Jane Parkinson, Jenny Secker, Sarah Stewart-Brown
University of Warwick
Oliver C. Robinson, Frederick G. Lopez, Katheryn Ramos, Sofya Nartova-Bochaver
Resources are selected by the wellbeing topic, not by your answers or score.
What “I can't see the point” may mean, when urgent help is needed, and how to return to everyday life without demanding an immediate sense of purpose.
How meditation differs from mindfulness, what is known about benefits and risks, a brief optional practice, and when to stop or seek professional support.
Take the 10-item PSS-10 and reflect on how unpredictable, uncontrollable, and overloaded life felt during the last month.
Complete the 21-item BDI-II and receive a careful, non-diagnostic interpretation of depressive symptoms over the past two weeks.
Reflect on emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment in human-service work with the 22-item MBI-HSS.
No. It measures positive mental wellbeing and was not designed as a diagnostic depression screen.
The original scale does not define one universal good or bad threshold. Population averages vary, so context and change over time are more informative.
The scale was deliberately developed to cover positive feelings and functioning without mixing them with symptom questions.
