Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here for FREE ACCESS to this landmark database

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Transcultural Psychiatry
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Hermansson, A.-C.
Right arrow Articles by Timpka, T.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Hermansson, A.-C.
Right arrow Articles by Timpka, T.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

‘How Do You Feel?’: A Self-Rating Scale for Measuring Well-Being in Refugees

Ann-Charlotte Hermansson

Toomas Timpka

Linköping University, Sweden

This study describes the construction and evaluation of an instrument for measuring psychological well-being in refugees. A 16-item scale, ‘How do you feel?’, for concurrent measurement of present and previous well-being was constructed and translated into five languages. Male war-wounded refugees were tested during hospitalization shortly after arrival (n= 60) and after two years (n= 53). The group was culturally heterogenous. The reliability was acceptable (0.78–0.92). Construct validation yielded acceptable validity. Back-translations indicated minor ambiguities. A revised 10-item version is suggested for future use. The scale is easily administered and provides a potentially useful screening instrument to complement medical examinations. It can also be used for evaluating prevention programs and for research purposes.

Key Words: cross-cultural evaluation • refugees • reliability • validity • wellbeing scale

Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 36, No. 3, 317-328 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/136346159903600306
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?