Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (SSWQ) is a 16-item self-report behavior rating scale for measuring youths' school-specific wellbeing. The SSWQ is comprised of four subscales: (1) Joy of Learning, (2) School Connectedness, (3) Educational Purpose, and (4) Academic Efficacy. Subscale scores can be used as standalone wellbeing indicators or summed to create a Overall Student Wellbeing composite scale. The SSWQ was developed with a sample of 6-8th graders, and a college version is also available. Subscore(s): Connectedness, Self Efficacy, Joy of Learning, Purpose
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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
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Self Awareness ; Relationship Skills ; Connectedness ; Self Efficacy ; Joy of Learning ; Purpose
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
5 minutes
Administration
Paper
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
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 Renshaw, T. L. (2015). A replication of the technical adequacy of the Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 33(8), 757-768. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282915580885
Renshaw, T. L., & Bolognino, S. J. (2016). The College Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire: A brief, multidimensional measure of undergraduate‘s covitality. Journal of Happiness Studies, 17(2), 463-484. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-014-9606-4
Renshaw, T. L., & Chenier, J. S. (2018). Further validation of the Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire: Comparing first-order and second-order factor effects on actual school outcomes. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 36(4), 392-397. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282916678494
Renshaw, T. L., Long, A. C., & Cook, C. R. (2015). Assessing adolescents‘ positive psychological functioning at school: Development and validation of the Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire. School Psychology Quarterly, 30(4), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1037/spq0000088
