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Mental well-being

Mental well-being in selected Scottish cities

The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) is a scale for assessing positive mental health (mental well-being). Candidates are asked 14 positively worded questions with five possible answers, and their scores are derived on a scale of 0-70, where 70 represents the best mental well-being, and 0 the worst.WEMWEBSGlasgow had the lowest mean mental well-being score of the selected cities over the period shown, 2008-2011. Both Edinburgh and Aberdeen have had higher scores over this period, closer to the Scottish average.

Notes

This indicator is quite out of date now. 

More information on the WEMWEBS questionnaire is available here.