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ArticleAssessment2026

Beyond Depression: Does the CES-D 8 Capture Subjective Well-Being?

Filip Fors Connolly, Tommy Gärling

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Article in Assessment, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Filip Fors ConnollyUmeå University, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-3857-4398
Tommy GärlingUniversity of Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-8757-7552

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study examines whether the 8-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D 8) measures depression as distinct from the subjective well-being (SWB) components emotional well-being (EWB) and life satisfaction (LS). Using data from the Swedish European Social Survey CRONOS-2 panel (

Indexed as

DepressionPersonal SatisfactionPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesAdolescentAdultAgedFactor Analysis, StatisticalFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsSurveys and QuestionnairesSwedenYoung AdultCES-D 8depressive symptomsemotional well-beingmeasurementsubjective well-beingSwedenvalidity

Identifiers

PMID40413575
PMCPMC13280302

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