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A validation study of the Arabic version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale among undergraduate students
BACKGROUND: The main aim of this study was to assess the validity of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) and the short version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) and to evaluate the metric properties of both versions by using a sample of undergraduate stude...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10657025/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37978539 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01443-5 |
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author | Zayed, Kashef Omara, Ehab Al-Shamli, Ali Al-Rawahi, Nasser Haramlah, Ahmed Al Al-Attiyah, Asma A. Al-Haddabi, Badriya Al-Yarobi, Ali Al-Busafi, Majid Al-Jadidi, Khalifa |
author_facet | Zayed, Kashef Omara, Ehab Al-Shamli, Ali Al-Rawahi, Nasser Haramlah, Ahmed Al Al-Attiyah, Asma A. Al-Haddabi, Badriya Al-Yarobi, Ali Al-Busafi, Majid Al-Jadidi, Khalifa |
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description | BACKGROUND: The main aim of this study was to assess the validity of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) and the short version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) and to evaluate the metric properties of both versions by using a sample of undergraduate students from three Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia). METHODS: Six hundred ninety undergraduate students (340 M and 350 F; mean (age) = 21.16 ± 2.44) from Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia (N(OM) = 238, N(QA) = 215, N(SA) = 237), voluntarily participated in this cross-section study. All of them responded to the WEMWBS, Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction Frustration (BPNSFS), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II). The methodology involved utilizing descriptive statistics to understand the data’s characteristics, internal consistency analysis for reliability, correlation analysis for convergent validity, confirmatory factor analysis to validate the scales, and measurement invariance testing to ensure cross-group comparability. Model fit indices were employed to gauge the goodness of fit. RESULTS: The translated Arabic versions of the WEMWBS and SWEMWBS showed good reliability, with Cronbach’s alpha values of 0.867 and 0.772, respectively. The findings of confirmatory factor analysis asserted the one-factor solution to interpret the item variances of the 14-item WEMWBS and 7-item SWEMWBS. The WEMWBS and SWEMWBS also showed significant positive relationships with need satisfaction and negative relationship with need frustration, and depression. Moreover, the SWEMWBS showed partial scalar invariance across genders and countries, while the WEMWBS showed only partial metric invariance across the three countries and partial scalar invariance across genders. CONCLUSIONS: Our study highlights the appropriateness of both versions of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) in assessing the psychological well-being of Arab undergraduate students. The employment of these tools is strongly encouraged for the assessment of mental well-being within a comparable adult population. |
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spelling | pubmed-106570252023-11-17 A validation study of the Arabic version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale among undergraduate students Zayed, Kashef Omara, Ehab Al-Shamli, Ali Al-Rawahi, Nasser Haramlah, Ahmed Al Al-Attiyah, Asma A. Al-Haddabi, Badriya Al-Yarobi, Ali Al-Busafi, Majid Al-Jadidi, Khalifa BMC Psychol Research BACKGROUND: The main aim of this study was to assess the validity of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) and the short version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) and to evaluate the metric properties of both versions by using a sample of undergraduate students from three Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia). METHODS: Six hundred ninety undergraduate students (340 M and 350 F; mean (age) = 21.16 ± 2.44) from Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia (N(OM) = 238, N(QA) = 215, N(SA) = 237), voluntarily participated in this cross-section study. All of them responded to the WEMWBS, Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction Frustration (BPNSFS), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II). The methodology involved utilizing descriptive statistics to understand the data’s characteristics, internal consistency analysis for reliability, correlation analysis for convergent validity, confirmatory factor analysis to validate the scales, and measurement invariance testing to ensure cross-group comparability. Model fit indices were employed to gauge the goodness of fit. RESULTS: The translated Arabic versions of the WEMWBS and SWEMWBS showed good reliability, with Cronbach’s alpha values of 0.867 and 0.772, respectively. The findings of confirmatory factor analysis asserted the one-factor solution to interpret the item variances of the 14-item WEMWBS and 7-item SWEMWBS. The WEMWBS and SWEMWBS also showed significant positive relationships with need satisfaction and negative relationship with need frustration, and depression. Moreover, the SWEMWBS showed partial scalar invariance across genders and countries, while the WEMWBS showed only partial metric invariance across the three countries and partial scalar invariance across genders. CONCLUSIONS: Our study highlights the appropriateness of both versions of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) in assessing the psychological well-being of Arab undergraduate students. The employment of these tools is strongly encouraged for the assessment of mental well-being within a comparable adult population. BioMed Central 2023-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10657025/ /pubmed/37978539 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01443-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Zayed, Kashef Omara, Ehab Al-Shamli, Ali Al-Rawahi, Nasser Haramlah, Ahmed Al Al-Attiyah, Asma A. Al-Haddabi, Badriya Al-Yarobi, Ali Al-Busafi, Majid Al-Jadidi, Khalifa A validation study of the Arabic version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale among undergraduate students |
title | A validation study of the Arabic version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale among undergraduate students |
title_full | A validation study of the Arabic version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale among undergraduate students |
title_fullStr | A validation study of the Arabic version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale among undergraduate students |
title_full_unstemmed | A validation study of the Arabic version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale among undergraduate students |
title_short | A validation study of the Arabic version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale among undergraduate students |
title_sort | validation study of the arabic version of the warwick-edinburgh mental well-being scale among undergraduate students |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10657025/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37978539 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01443-5 |
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