Evaluation

Limitations

The construct of emotional well-being that we have addressed in our study is broad and hence, we have to be more specific with regards to what component we are exactly measuring to ensure the right assessment has been chosen. We used the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWS) in our study as in article 3 of our literature review, it is mentioned that the Bradburn Affect Balance Scale (ABS) might not have been a good measure for their experiment. However we failed to take into consideration that the constructs measured in the WEMWS might be different from the scales used in the other literature reviews, and there might not have been a correlation between the constructs as the questionnaire used would not have measured the specific components of emotional well-being we wanted.

Emotional well-being also proves to be a difficult construct to measure as extraneous variables such as stressful events play a role in influencing the results and these extraneous variables are hard to control.

In addition, as the 2 questionnaires have not been utilized in the same study before, the findings from other studies as presented in our literature review may not generalized to our study. Though the definition of the constructs might be similar, there might be discrepancies in terms of the questionnaires’ ability to measure these constructs. Hence, this might have affected the results of our study.

Improvements to be Made

Thus, to address the problem above we could have started off by comparing the questionnaires used in article 2 to those we were intending to use as a better gauge of whether they are measuring the same construct since the questionnaires in the article has evidence for providing the desired results.