Adaptation of Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale: Its Relationship with Loneliness, Emotional Flexibility and Resilience Among Adolescents

• Authors: Yakup İme

Abstracts

EN

Understanding and measuring mental well-being among adolescents has recently become a priority. The validity and reliability study of the 7-item short version of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) has not been examined in Turkish adolescents. Therefore, this study aims to adapt the 7-item Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale to Turkish and examine the relationships between loneliness, emotional flexibility, resilience, and mental well-being. The data were collected by convenience sampling method from 820 adolescents aged 14-18 from 73 city of Turkey. During the adaptation process of SWEMWBS, confirmatory factor analysis, concurrent validity, and reliability analysis were performed. The findings confirmed the one dimensionality of the 7-item scale on the Turkish adolescent sample. In addition, a significant positive relationship was found between mental well-being and emotional flexibility and resilience. However, there was a significant negative correlation between mental well-being and loneliness. The results showed that the Turkish version of SWEMWBS had strong psychometric properties in adolescents.

Keywords

EN

Mental well-being; loneliness; emotional flexibility; resilience; adolescents; adaptation

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 201-206

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Yakup İme

• Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya-Turkey, Turkey

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/ppb.2023.148052

Biblioteka Nauki

55993294