Overview
The Mental Health score is a composite measure of psychological functioning and social wellbeing. It captures how people think, feel, behave, and relate to others in everyday life.
How we calculate our Mental Health score
The total mental health score is calculated as a weighted average of the scores from three key indices, all based on data gathered from the Daily Reflections in the YuLife app.
🧠 Science Behind
The Daily Reflections' health questionnaire includes nearly 500 questions, each with its own relevancy period - the amount of time an answer continues to contribute to scoring.
Examples:
“Did you exercise yesterday?” – relevant for 1 day
“Do you drink?” – relevant for up to 1 year
A question only influences score calculations while its relevancy period is active.
The three domains reflect core determinants of mental health identified in clinical psychology, psychiatry, and social neuroscience:
Behavioural Health – cognitive skills, self‑regulation, resilience, and stress management
Mental Wellbeing – emotional health, depression literacy, and engagement with mental‑health care
Social Health – quality of relationships, social skills, social norms, and digital/social‑media use
Behavioural health
This sub‑index evaluates cognitive and behavioural capacities that underpin daily functioning, emotional regulation, and coping with demands.
Mental wellbeing
This sub‑index focuses on emotional health, depression awareness, and engagement with mental‑health support, which are key determinants of functioning and quality of life.
Social health
This sub‑index captures the quality and balance of social interactions, social skills, and digital‑media habits. Social connectedness and supportive relationships are among the strongest predictors of mental and physical health.
What does my score mean?
Higher scores indicate healthier patterns of thoughts, emotions, and relationships, and a lower risk of common mental disorders and functional impairment.
Scores are categorised as follows:
Score Category | Score | Explanation |
High | 𝓍 ≥ 52 | No significant risk factors. |
Medium | -32 < 𝓍 < 52 | Minimal number of significant risk factors. |
Low | 𝓍 ≤ −32 | Considerable number of risk factors. |
✨ Making use of AI
By having our AI-driven models continually scan the latest publicly available research and learn from it in real time, our burnout model is constantly being refined and improved. This allows us to design more informed question sets and apply evidence-backed weightings to both the questions and their responses. To learn more, see here.