The 6W-WeB asks about engagement in six areas: connecting, challenging oneself, giving, physical activity, embracing the moment and self-care. It separates satisfaction with engagement from personally important or enjoyable reasons for acting and feelings of pressure to act.
Download the measure and scoring instructions (chapter PDF; Appendices A and B)
Instructions and scoring
The chapter provides the questionnaire in Appendix A and full scoring instructions in Appendix B (printed pages 22–30).
- Score the three global scales separately: take the mean of the relevant engagement, importance or pressure items. Do not reverse pressure items when calculating the global pressure score.
- For each of the six domain scales, reverse its pressure items as 7 − item score, then average that domain’s engagement, importance and reversed-pressure items.
- Use the complete appendix for item mapping and administration wording. This page supplies no diagnostic cutoff.
Original measure and validation reference
Basarkod, G., Sahdra, B. K., Hooper, N., & Ciarrochi, J. (2019). The Six Ways to Well-Being (6W-WeB): Assessing the frequency of and motivation for six behaviours linked to well-being. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jtcng.
The chapter also requests citation of Basarkod’s 2019 doctoral dissertation for the questionnaire. Consult its “Citation and Copyright Information” section before redistributing the measure.