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)

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

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)

This measure is for adults

This is a free measure

The PANAS measures wellbeing through two mood scales: one measuring positive affect (emotions) and the other measuring negative affect. Participants respond to its 20 items on a 5-point Likert scale according to how often they have experienced specific emotions over the past week. The PANAS has moderately good reliability and validity (Watson, 1988), and it has been used in a variety of dissertations and articles (statistics solutions). Available in French, German, and Swedish as well as English, it can be used with no cost without the necessity of contacting the American Psychological Association Permissions Office for non-profit research purposes (Mapi Research Trust).

Pros for Schools	Cons for Schools
Has a partner scale for children (see PANAS-C) Multiple translations available

Suggestions for Further Research

Mapi Research Trust. (n.d.). Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Retrieved from https://edtechbooks.org/-VvT

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://edtechbooks.org/-yttn

Watson, D., Clark, L. A., & Tellegen, A. (1988). Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: the PANAS scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(6), 1063.

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