Hi I couldn't access the full paper, but did find a table of the data (see below). Attached are two crosstabs, the first of education (rows from high to low) with the 3 levels of mental wellbeing (columns from low to medium to high). Shows strong association between the 2 as low mental wellbeing increases with decreases in education and medium decreases with decreases in education. High mental wellbeing stays relatively constant. Second analysis excludes the lows and shows much more modest and less systematic relationship between education and middle vs high wellbeing.
Tracking down the scale reveals that it consists of 14 all positive items rated from 1 to 5, with 5 being all the time. Scores range from 14 (all 1s) to 70 (all 5s). Here's the scale: http://www.healthscotland.com/documents/1467.aspx In the study, low was defined as 14-42 and highs as 60 or higher. Here's the table showing data I analyzed and the cutoffs. http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/bjprcpsych/suppl/2015/03/06/bjp.bp.114.147280.DC1/ds147280.pdf Clearly, High is a very high score. One would have to score 5 on a number of the items (e.g., always feel useful, always feel relaxed, ...) to obtain a score of 60 or better. Without the paper, not clear why those cutoffs were selected. A ceiling effect certainly appears possible. Take care Jim Jim Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology University of Winnipeg 204-786-9757 Room 4L41A (4th Floor Lockhart) www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=43663 or send a blank email to leave-43663-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Warwick.pdf
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