Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Brief Multidimensional Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS; Huebner, Drane, & Valois, 2000; Seligson, Huebner, & Valois, 2003) is a five-item measure that provides a general index of student life satisfaction across five life domains (friends, family, self, school, and living environment) for students within the ages of 8-18. A five-point scale developed by Bickman and colleagues (2007) is commonly used (1 = very dissatisfied to 5 = very satisfied). General life satisfaction is calculated by summing the five individual domains (Huebner, Seligson, Valois, & Suldo, 2006). The five-item version has acceptable internal consistency when used with high school students (a = .75, Funk, Huebner, Valois, 2006; a = 83, Ng, Huebner, Maydeu-Olivares, & Hills, 2017; a = .81, Zullig, Valois, Huebner, Oeltmann, & Drane, 2001). A two-week stability reliability coefficient was acceptable for high school students, r = .91 (Funk, Huebner, & Valois, 2006).
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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
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Student life satisfaction ; Life domains assessment ; Friends family self school living environment
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
a five-item measure
Administration
Computer,
Paper
Access and Use
Price
https://www.pearsonassessments.com/store/usassessments/en/Store/Professional-Assessments/Behavior/SSIS-Social-Emotional-Learning-Edition/p/100001940.html?tab=pricing-ordering
Open Access
Yes
Setting
Undefined
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Costa, P. J., Inman, R. A., & Moreira, P. A. (2022). The brief multidimensional students’ life satisfaction scale (BMSLSS): Further evidence of factorial structure, reliability, and relations with other indicators of subjective wellbeing. Applied research in quality of life, 17(6), 3541-3558.
