Rasch validation of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) in community-dwelling adults

BMC Psychology

Table 3 Item locations for our US cohort, compared to previously published Swedish, UK, and Australian cohorts

Item	US cohort (12 items)		Swedish cohort [13] (7 items)		UK cohort [8] (7 items)		Australian cohort [7] (10 items)
Item	Location	SE	Location	SE	Location	SE	Location	SE
11. I've been able to make up my own mind about things	− 0.56	0.07	− 0.57	0.01	− 1.07	0.04	− 0.85	0.04
13. I've been interested in new things	− 0.25	0.07					0.08	0.03
7. I've been thinking clearly	− 0.18	0.08	− 0.47	0.02	− 0.66	0.04	− 0.48	0.04
6. I've been dealing with problems well	− 0.18	0.08	− 0.02	0.02	0.08	0.04	− 0.19	0.03
12. I've been feeling loved	− 0.12	0.07					− 0.42	0.03
8. I've been feeling good about myself	− 0.11	0.07
4. I've been feeling interested in other people	− 0.03	0.07
2. I've been feeling useful	0.02	0.07	0.21	0.01	0.00	0.04	− 0.14	0.03
9. I've been feeling close to other people	0.03	0.07	0.14	0.01	0.11	0.03	− 0.09	0.03
14. I've been feeling cheerful	0.08	0.07					− 0.09	0.03
10. I've been feeling confident	0.35	0.07
3. I've been feeling relaxed	0.93	0.07	0.53	0.01	1.06	0.03	0.69	0.03

Item 1 “I’ve been feeling optimistic about the future” was not retained in our sample, but was retained in the Swedish, UK, and Australian cohorts, which why only 6 of the 7 item locations are shown in this Table for the Swedish and UK versions; and only 9 of the 10 items in the Australian version. Note that the Australian study reported on item locations for the original 14-item scale, not the final 10-item scale. The final 10-item version might have slightly different item locations, but they were not reported in the manuscript

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