I am looking for a scale that measures positive mental health (consisting of eudaimonic and hedonic indicators of mental wellbeing) in pre-school children (aged 4-6). Can anyone suggest one? We would implement it in Germany - so a scale in German would be great, but English is fine as well.
There are many scales like PERI, CESD, Bradburn Negative Affect Scale, PHQ and BAI. For global studies of youth psyschosocial distress the Kesslers standardized and validated measure of non-specific psychological distress is used.
For youth, one of the popular scales is Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale. If you wish to find details, you can search them on internet. Here is a sample:
http://www.nwph.net/nwpho/publications/northwestmentalwellbeing%20surveysummary.pdf
http://www.gov.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=4825&p=0
Here's a scale developed and frequently used in Germany to assess wellbeing / quality of life:
http://kindl.org/english/cat-screen/information/
You may however have to adapt it for use with pre-school children. We have very good experiences with using KINDL self-reports starting from age 6.
The Peds QL 4.0 is a good scale to assess wellbeing / quality of life for children starting from 2 years. the PedsQL Cognitive Functioning Scale may be useful.
Please visit: http://www.proqolid.org/instruments/pediatric_quality_of_life_inventory_generic_core_scales_pedsql_generic_core_scales
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