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)

Contentment with Life Assessment Scale (CLAS)

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)

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

Job-related Affective Well-being Scale (JAWS)

This measure is for adults

This is a free measure

Similar to the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS), the Job-related Affective Well-being Scale (JAWS) solely focuses on the work domain of wellbeing. It assesses the emotional reactions people feel towards their work. It has 30 questions, one for each emotion, and asks participants to rate how often they have experienced that emotion on a 5 point likert scale. There is a shortened 20 item version as well, which Dr. Spector more frequently uses in his research. Both versions have been translated into multiple versions. It is free to use for educational and noncommercial purposes as long as you share the results and any translations you create with Dr. Spector at pspector@usf.edu .

Pros for Schools	Cons for Schools
Multiple translations Widely used outside the field of education	Only measures one domain of wellbeing

Suggestion for Further Research

Spector, P. E. (n.d.).Job-related Affective Well-being Scale JAWS. Retrieved November 12, 2019, from https://edtechbooks.org/-jPiS.

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