PMID- 36803574
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230223
LR  - 20230611
IS  - 2050-7283 (Electronic)
IS  - 2050-7283 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023 Feb 17
TI  - Rasch validation of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) in 
      community-dwelling adults.
PG  - 48
LID - 10.1186/s40359-023-01058-w [doi]
LID - 48
AB  - BACKGROUND: With the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic and the recent political 
      divide in the United States (US), there is an urgent need to address the soaring 
      mental well-being problems and promote positive well-being. The Warwick-Edinburgh 
      Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) measures the positive aspects of mental health. 
      Previous studies confirmed its construct validity, reliability, and 
      unidimensionality with confirmatory factor analysis. Six studies have performed a 
      Rasch analysis on the WEMWBS, and only one evaluated young adults in the US. The 
      goal of our study is to use Rasch analysis to validate the WEMBS in a wider age 
      group of community-dwelling adults in the US. METHODS: We used the Rasch 
      unidimensional measurement model 2030 software to evaluate item and person fit, 
      targeting, person separation reliability (PSR), and differential item functioning 
      (DIF) for sample sizes of at least 200 persons in each subgroup. RESULTS: After 
      deleting two items, the WEMBS analyzed in our 553 community-dwelling adults 
      (average age 51.22 +/- 17.18 years; 358 women) showed an excellent PSR = 0.91 as 
      well as person and item fit, but the items are too easy for this population 
      (person mean location = 2.17 +/- 2.00). There was no DIF for sex, mental health, or 
      practicing breathing exercises. CONCLUSIONS: The WEMWBS had good item and person 
      fit but the targeting is off when used in community-dwelling adults in the US. 
      Adding more difficult items might improve the targeting and capture a broader 
      range of positive mental well-being.
CI  - (c) 2023. The Author(s).
FAU - Deng, Wei
AU  - Deng W
AD  - Division of Rehabilitation Science, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 
      Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
FAU - Carpentier, Sydney
AU  - Carpentier S
AD  - Division of Rehabilitation Science, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 
      Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
FAU - Blackwood, Jena
AU  - Blackwood J
AD  - Division of Rehabilitation Science, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 
      Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
FAU - Van de Winckel, Ann
AU  - Van de Winckel A
AD  - Division of Physical Therapy, Division of Rehabilitation Science, Department of 
      Rehabilitation Medicine, Medical School, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St 
      SE (MMC 388), Rm 311, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA. avandewi@umn.edu.
LA  - eng
GR  - UL1 TR002494/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
GR  - UL1TR002494/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230217
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Psychol
JT  - BMC psychology
JID - 101627676
SB  - IM
MH  - Young Adult
MH  - Humans
MH  - Female
MH  - Adult
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Aged
MH  - *Independent Living
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Pandemics
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Psychometrics/methods
MH  - *COVID-19
PMC - PMC9936469
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Community
OT  - Healthy volunteers
OT  - Mental well-being
OT  - Rasch
OT  - Validation studies
COIS- There is no financial competing interest in this study.
EDAT- 2023/02/22 06:00
MHDA- 2023/02/25 06:00
PMCR- 2023/02/17
CRDT- 2023/02/21 18:10
PHST- 2022/05/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/01/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/02/21 18:10 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/02/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/02/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2023/02/17 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s40359-023-01058-w [pii]
AID - 1058 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s40359-023-01058-w [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Psychol. 2023 Feb 17;11(1):48. doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01058-w.