Cover
Introduction
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
Implementation
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)
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

The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWL)

This measure is for adultsThis is a free measure

The SWL measures self-perceptions of individual life satisfaction, correlated with mental health, subjective quality of life, and likelihood to attempt suicide. Individuals respond to five items a 7-point Likert scale.  It has been used in studies of emotional regulation in several schools (Quoidbach et al., 2010. This test has high internal consistency and test-retest correlations (Pavot & Diener, 2008). It is available in multiple languages. The article “Wellâ€ÂBeing Assessment: An Evaluation of Wellâ€ÂBeing Scales for Public Health and Population Estimates of Wellâ€ÂBeing Among US Adults” compares it to national norms, providing several charts with the mean scores across demographic groups to help individuals contextualize their wellbeing scores. For example, figures show that men Ages 18-24 have a mean score of 3.5. Thus an individual in this demographic with a score of  3.8 would be lightly above average. The website https://eddiener.com/ includes more information and articles on this and other scales.

“The scale is copyrighted but you are free to use it without permission or charge by all professionals (researchers and practitioners) as long as you give credit to the authors of the scale: Ed Diener, Robert A. Emmons, Randy J. Larsen and Sharon Griffin as noted in the 1985 article in the Journal of Personality Assessment” (eddiener.com).

Pros for Schools

Cons for Schools

Available in multiple languages
Article cited above provides national norms to contextualize scores

Possibly too short for a robust understanding of individual wellbeing (5-items)

Suggestions for Further Research

Diener. Website. https://eddiener.com/

Kobau, R., Sniezek, J., Zack, M. M., Lucas, R. E., & Burns, A. (2010). Wellâ€Âbeing assessment: An evaluation of wellâ€Âbeing scales for public health and population estimates of wellâ€Âbeing among US adults. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being, 2(3), 272-297. https://edtechbooks.org/-DSR 

MIDSS. The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWL). Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Sciences.  https://edtechbooks.org/-wABp.   

Pavot, W., & Diener, E. (2008). The Satisfaction With Life Scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 3(2), 137-152. https://edtechbooks.org/-XdJs

Quoidbach, J., Berry, E., & Hansenne, M. & Mikolajczak, M. (2010). Positive emotion regulation and well-being: Comparing the impact of eight savoring and dampening strategies. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 368-373. https://edtechbooks.org/-PGj

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