Validation of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (V5) in a mexican student population

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Published: Dec 30, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2020.n2.v1.2148
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student welfare mental health psychometry

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Arturo Barraza Macías
Universidad Pedagógica de Durango

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In the present research we sought to determine the level of reliability and evidence of validity, based on the internal structure, which support the use of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale. To achieve this goal, an instrumental study was carried out by applying the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale to 760 upper secondary education studentsin thecity of Durango, Durango, Mexico. The results led to a new version of the scale with five items, different from Seven Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale; this new version (WEMWBS-V5) presents the best adjustment of the different solutions investigated ( 2: 11.18, p =.000, RMSEA: 0.040). The subsequent Exploratory Factor Analysis reports a single factor that explains 47.18% of the total variance. Its reliability is .81 in Cronbach’s alpha and a reliability by halves, according to the Spearman-Brown
formula of .81 for equal lengths. 

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Barraza Macías, A. (2020). Validation of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (V5) in a mexican student population. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 1(2), 121–130. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2020.n2.v1.2148
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