College Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire

The CSSWQ was intentionally designed as a brief measure of cumulative subjective wellbeing. As such, only one or two relevant indicators were selected to represent each wellbeing domain, resulting in a measurement model consisting of five college-grounded positive psychology traits: college gratitude (emotional domain), academic self-efficacy and academic satisfaction (cognitive domain), school connectedness (social domain), and academic grit (behavioral domain)

Content

Domains
Self Awareness,
Self Management,
Relationship Skills
Subdomain

College gratitude, academic self-efficacy, academic satisfaction, school connectedness, academic grit

Grades
Post secondary
Languages
English
Respondent
Student

Administration Information

Length
16 items
Administration
Paper

Access and Use

Contact

Utah State University
Associate Professor - Director of the School Psychology Program
Email: tyler.renshaw@usu.edu

Open Access
Yes
Use in Research

Zhang, D.C., Renshaw, T.L. (2020). Personality and college student subjective wellbeing: A domain-specific approach. Journal of Happiness Studies, 21, 997–1014. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00116-8

Psychometrics

Scoring
Manual scoring
Psychometric References

Renshaw, T. L. (2018). Psychometrics of the revised college student subjective wellbeing questionnaire. Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 33(2), 136–149. https://doi.org/10.1177/0829573516678704

National Comparison
No
Item Type
Likert

Psychometric Considerations

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