Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
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.
Content
Grades
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
Post secondary
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
5 minutes
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Open Access
Yes
Use in Research
Arslan, G., & Coşkun, M. (2020). Student subjective wellbeing, school functioning, and psychological adjustment in high school adolescents: A latent variable analysis. Journal of Positive School Psychology, 4(2), 153-164. https://journalppw.com/index.php/jpsp/article/view/117/111
Arslan, G., & Renshaw, T. L. (2018). Student subjective wellbeing as a predictor of adolescent problem behaviors: A comparison of first-order and second-order factor effects. Child Indicators Research, 11(2), 507-521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-017-9444-0
Kaplan, Y. (2017). School–specific subjective wellbeing and emotional problems among high school adolescents. Journal of Positive School Psychology, 1(1), 1-9. https://www.journalppw.com/index.php/JPPW/article/view/1
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., & Chenier, J. S. (2019). Screening for student subjective well-being: An analog evaluation of broad and targeted models. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 37(6), 803-809. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282918795797
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
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
Item Type
Likert
