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The World Health Organisation's Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5), which is developed by Bench et al., is a valid instrument for the psychometric evaluation of emotional well-being, and quality of life for the previous two weeks (Bech et al., 1996). This measure consists of 5-items, which respondents rated on a scale of "0- never" to "5- all the time". The WHO-5 low score "0" representing the worst possible well-being and "100" the best. The score of lower than 13 could be regarded as indicates poor quality of life.

The Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS) is a 15- item, self-report used to assess psychological distress, which is developed by Simons and Gaher (Simons and Gaher, 2005).DTS was used as a function of the time period during which these data were collected. While the original scale has 4 factors Turkish version has 3 factors across Tolerance, Regulation, Self-Efficacy. 5-point Likert-type scale score changes between 1 strongly agree and 5 strongly disagree. The higher scores indicating higher psychological distress tolerance.

The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), which is developed by Zigmond et. all is a self-assessment tool for to use of detecting depression and anxiety (Zigmond and Snaith, 1983). HADS investigates how people have felt in the past week. It has included 14- items, which rated on a four-point scale and scored from 0-3, and two subscales, as anxiety (7 items) and depression (7 items), each part scores ranged from 0 to 21. Scores between 0 and 7 indicate normal emotional stated, and higher than 7 on the subscales of the HADS indicated anxiety and depressive disorder.