Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Social Emotional Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S) is a 36-item self-report measure of students‘ social and emotional strengths. The 12 subscales (each consisting of three items) are associated with four domains of positive social-emotional health: belief in self, belief in others, emotional competence, and engaged living. These four correlated domains assess the higher-order construct of covitality. The SEHS-2020 is the most recent validated version.
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Social-emotional strengths ; Student self-report measure ; Belief in self ; Belief in others ; Emotional competence
Languages
Japanese,
Farsi,
Arabic,
Turkish,
Greek,
Italian,
Slovak,
Dutch
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
36 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Developer
UCSB Project Vitality
Contact
Michael Furlong mfurlong@ucsb.edu
Open Access
Yes
Setting
Undefined
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Carnazzo, K., Dowdy, E., Furlong, M. J., & Quirk, M. P. (2019). An evaluation of the Social Emotional Health Survey—Secondary for use with students with learning disabilities. Psychology in the Schools, 56(3), 433-446. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22199
Furlong, M. J., Dowdy, E., Nylund-Gibson, K., Wagle, R., Carter, D., & Hinton, T. (2021). Enhancement and standardization of a universal social-emotional health measure for students‘ psychological strengths. Journal of Well-Being Assessment, 4(3), 245-267. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41543-020-00032-2
Furlong, M. J., You, S., Renshaw, T. L., Smith, D. C., & O‘Malley, M. D. (2014). Preliminary development and validation of the social and emotional health survey for secondary school students. Social Indicators Research, 117(3), 1011-1032. https://doi.org/article/10.1007/s11205-013-0373-0
Hinton, T., Dowdy, E., Furlong, M. J., Nylund-Gibson, K., Carter, D., & Wagle, R. (2021). Examining the Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary for Use with Latinx Youth. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 39(2), 242-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282920953236
Wagle, R., Dowdy, E., Furlong, M. J., Nylund-Gibson, K., Carter, D., & Hinton, T. (2022). Anonymous Versus Self-Identified Response Formats for School Mental Health Screening. Assessment for Effective Intervention, 47(2), 112-117. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534508420959439 https://eric.ed.gov/?q=Wagle&id=ED614477
