The Science Behind WeBe

Overall Well Being Rating – “How’s Your WeBe?”

WeBe incorporates a single score rating to assess a user’s overall sense of well being. The use of a single-score self-report index is common in physical and mental health settings. For example, a patient’s pain ratings can help healthcare providers understand a patient’s intensity and nature of pain, which facilitates accurate diagnosis, effective treatment planning, and monitoring of pain management strategies. A patient's self-reported pain is seen as the most accurate and reliable evidence of the existence of pain and its intensity (Karcioglu, Topacoglu, Dikme & Dikme, 2018). 

Similarly, the single-score Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale has long been used by mental health professionals to rate how serious a person’s mental illness may be (Aas, 2011). It measures how much a person's symptoms affect their day-to-day life on a scale of 0 to 100. 

The overall WeBe score is a single rating by the user of their well being ranging from 1 to 100, with higher numbers indicating greater well being. The “How’s your WeBe” score is used to provide a simple and quick measure of the person’s overall well being. Its validity was confirmed by comparing users overall WeBe scores with their scores on the Mental Health Continuum – Short Form (MHC-SF; Keyes et al., 2008). The MHC measures positive mental health through assessing various facets of well being, including emotional, psychological, and social well being. The MHC has been validated with adults, adolescents, and college students in the U.S. and with many populations worldwide (Keyes, 2009). Correlations between overall WeBe and MHC scores were highly significant, and in the moderate to strong range.