Translation of the questionnaire Healthy-Unhealthy Uses of Music Scale (HUMS) from English into German

The Healthy-Unhealthy Uses of Music Scale (HUMS) was developed by Saarikallio, Gold & McFerran (2015) to assess adolescent´s engagement in music and whether they perceive their music as being helpful or not. Therefore, HUMS serves as an indicator for mental well-being or for proneness to depression in adolescents from the perspective of musical behavior.

In order to make HUMS accessible to German-speaking countries, a translation of the questionnaire was made. We finished the translation process of the Healthy-Unhealthy Uses of Music Scale from English into German (HUMS-DE) using a team translation approach.

You may download HUMS-DE from this website. > Link

Currently: Article published > Link, validation of HUMS-DE ongoing

Contact: riedl@mdw.ac.at