Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Social Connectedness Scale includes 8 items and measures students' sense of connectedness, affiliation, and companionship to provide a broad picture of belongingness. The authors have an accompanying Social Assurance scale (which measures students' sense of companionship and affiliation) often administered in tandem with the Social Connectedness Scale.
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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 ; Belonging ; Student Measure ; Social Connectedness ; Belongingness
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
8 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Setting
Anywhere
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Lee, R. M., & Robbins, S. B. (1995). Measuring belongingness: The Social Connectedness and the Social Assurance Scales. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 42, 232 - 241 https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0167.42.2.232
