Assessing Wellbeing in Schools

Why Is Wellbeing Important in Schools?

What is Wellbeing?

Considerations: How Does Wellbeing Function in Life

A Measure Suited for Your School

Ethical Considerations

Necessary Permission

Application of Data

Measures of Child Wellbeing

Gratitude Measures

Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale (WEMWBS)

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children (PANAS-C)

EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Well-being

Six Seconds Youth Version (SEI-YV)

Measures of Child Wellbeing at School

Children’s Hope Scale

Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS)

Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS)

The Stirling Children's Well-being Scale (SCWBS)

Me and My Feelings (M&MF)

Me and My School Questionnaire (M&MS)

Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (SSWQ)

The Psychological Sense of School Membership (PSSM) (Adapted)

Social Emotional Health Survey-Primary (SEHS-P)

The School Attitude Questionnaire

The PedsQL Measurement Model

Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S)

The Student Resilience Survey (SRS)

Holistic Student Assessment (HSA)

Flourishing at School Survey (FAS)

Measures of Adult Wellbeing

Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS)

The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWL)

Flourishing Scale (FS)

The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ)

Comprehensive and Brief Inventory of Thriving (CIT & BIT)

Mental Health Continuum Short and Long Form (MHC-SF)

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)

The PERMA Profiler

Measures of Adult Wellbeing at Work

Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (TSWQ)

Job-related Affective Well-being Scale (JAWS)

The Workplace PERMA-Profiler

Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS)

The Gallup Q12 Employee Engagement Questionnaire

The PERMAH Workplace Survey

Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ)

Maslach Burnout Inventory: Educator's Survey (MBI-ES)

Measures of Cultural Wellbeing

School Culture Triage Survey

My Class Inventory-Short Form (MCI-SF)

School-Level Environment Questionnaires (SLEQ)

The Omnibus T-Scale

My Class Inventory-Short Form for Teachers (TMCI-SF)

Individualised Classroom Environment Questionnaire (ICEQ)

ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLES)

Student Engagement Instrument (SEI)

Classroom Environment Scale

Other Resources

Contentment with Life Assessment Scale (CLAS)

This measure is for adults

This is a free measure

This scale assesses wellbeing through measuring contentment and fulfillment, along with the self-discrepancies individuals feel towards their life. It is a brief 5-item survey with responses on a 7-point scale. Appropriate for anyone, it requires only a citation for use. Test reliability can be found in Lavallee et al. (2007).

Pros for Schools	Cons for Schools
	Possibly too short for a robust understanding (5-items) Less tested than other measures

Suggestions for Further Research

Lavallee, L. F., Hatch, P. M., Michalos, A. C., & McKinley, T. (2007). Development of the contentment with life assessment scale (CLAS): Using daily life experiences to verify levels of self-reported life satisfaction. Social Indicators Research, 83, 201-244.

MIDSS. Contentment with Life Assessment Scale (CLAS). Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Sciences. www.midss.org/content/contentment-life-assessment-scale-clas

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