Further validation of the Chinese short Warwick Edinburgh mental wellbeing scale in the adult population of Macau: an application of classic test theory and item response theory
The results indicated that, as a single-factor scale, the instrument exhibits good quality at both the scale and item levels. It has high discriminative power and an adequate response set for assessing a full range of the latent trait, namely mental well-being.
Authors
- Lawrence Tak-Ming Lam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6183-6854)
- Mary Lam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9451-8203)
Institutions
- Macau University of Science and Technology (MO)
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- RMIT University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1528509
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.61