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Well-Being in New York City

SMAART Dashboard for mapping well-being in NYC

What is well-being?

Well-being constitutes physical, mental, and social stability that extends beyond the traditional definitions of health. It is comprised of the presence of positive emotions such as happiness; the absence of negative emotions such as anxiety; satisfaction with life, fulfillment and positive functioning.1

How do we measure it?

Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS)

The Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) is a shortened version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS). It measures both mental and emotional well-being (how “good” somebody feels) and psychological functioning (how well somebody thinks they are functioning). This scale is suitable for ages 13-74 years and works well as a “before” and “after” tool to measure change in well-being during an intervention or specific program (summative assessment).Show More

Better Life Index

The Better Life Index consists of 11 topics reflecting what the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has identified as essential to well-being in terms of material living conditions.Show More

Social Trust

Social Trust is a one-item scale which includes scores from 0 to 10 measuring perceptions on trust. A score of 0 indicates that one can’t be too careful with trusting people while a score of 10 means that most people can be trusted.Show More

Perceived Stress Scale

The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is the most widely used psychological instrument for measuring the perception of stress. It is a measure of the degree to which situations in one’s life are appraised as stressful. Items were designed to tap how unpredictable, uncontrollable, and overloaded respondents find their lives. The scale also includes a number of direct queries about current levels of experienced stress. The questions in the PSS ask about feelings and thoughts during the last month. In each case, respondents are asked how often they felt a certain way.Show More

The Satisfaction with Life Scale
(SWLS)

The Satisfaction with Life Scale is a 5-item scale designed to measure global cognitive judgments of one’s life satisfaction (not a measure of either positive or negative affect). Participants indicate how much they agree or disagree with each of the 5 items using a 7-point scale that ranges from 7 “strongly agree” to 1 “strongly disagree”.Show More

Office for National Statistics Subjective Well-Being Scale

The Office for National Statistics Subjective Well-Being Scale is a 4-item scale consisting of questions assessing satisfaction with daily life, happiness, anxiety and overall worthwhileness. Participants indicate their level of agreement on a 10-point response scale ranging from 0 to 10 where 0 means extremely dissatisfied/unhappy or not at all anxious/worthwhile and 10 means extremely satisfied/happy/anxious/worthwhile.Show More

DeJong Gierveld Loneliness Scale

The DeJong Gierveld Loneliness Scale is a 6-item scale which includes three statements about ’emotional loneliness’ and three about ‘social loneliness’. Social loneliness (SL) occurs when someone is missing a wider social network and emotional loneliness (EL) is caused when a person misses an “intimate relationship”Show More

Sleep Scale

Current User Stats

Users
Number Registered
55
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Age
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Gender
man
47.27%
Race/Ethnicity
asian
1.82%