The Brief Emotional Experience Scale (BEES)
The BEES is a a very brief 6-item self-report emotional adjective questionnaire that can be used to measure general emotional well-being or for assessing emotional experience of specific events.
The Brief Emotional Experience Scale
The BEES is a concise, six-item adjective-based self-report tool designed to assess emotional well-being and emotional experience across diverse populations. Developed to be accessible, intuitive, and low-burden, the BEES pairs positive and negative emotion adjectives (e.g., happy–sad, calm–worried, confident–afraid) to provide a balanced assessment of affective valence. It has demonstrated strong reliability, validity, and minimal participant discomfort across large samples of university students, school students, and the general public. The BEES can be used flexibly for general well-being assessment or context-specific emotional monitoring, making it particularly suitable for research, clinical, educational, and organisational settings.
The BEES is freely available for use with no formal permission required. More information can be found here.
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If you would like to fill out the BEES to obtain your own score, click here.
A word document containing the BEES, including scoring instructions.
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