Studies are interested increasingly in participants’ mental health and wellbeing. As with cognitive assessments, assessments of mental health and wellbeing typically take the form of a set of questions that have been developed and tested thoroughly.
The Malaise Inventory is a common assessment used to measure levels of psychological distress, or depression. It includes questions like these:
The participants’ answers are normally pooled together to create an aggregate score for psychological distress, however the questions can also be used separately.
Other common mental health assessments include the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, which is used to identify mental health problems and measure common forms of psychopathology in children and young adults.
The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) is often used to assess wellbeing. It comprises 14 statements. Participants are asked to indicate how often each statement reflects how they have felt in the past two weeks, on a 5-item scale from ‘none of the time’ to ‘all of the time’.
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