Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (TSWQ)


The TSWQ measures teacher wellbeing across two subscales: school connectedness and teaching efficacy. The subscales can be used independently or combined to create an overall wellbeing score. Teachers rank eight positive statements on an 8-point Likert scale representing frequency the statement is true in their life: For example, “I am a successful teacher” or “I feel like people at this school care about me” (Measure and User Guide, n.d., n.p.). Tyler Renshaw’s Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire can be used with this questionnaire for greater continuity across populations. For more information about Renshaw’s work, visit his website here.
Pros for Schools |
Cons for Schools |
Short holistic overview of wellbeing |
Few, if any, available translations |
Suggestions for Further Research
Renshaw, T., Long, A., & Cook, C. (2015). Assessing teachers' positive psychological functioning at work: Development and validation of the Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire. School Psychology Quarterly, 30, 289-306. https//: doi.org/10.1037/spq0000112
Renshaw, T. (n.d.). Measures. https://edtechbooks.org/-ueNo.
Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (TSWQ). (2018). Measure and user guide. https://osf.io/h7m46/https://osf.io/h7m46/

CC BY-NC: This work is released under a CC BY-NC license, which means that you are free to do with it as you please as long as you (1) properly attribute it and (2) do not use it for commercial gain.
End-of-Chapter Survey
: How would you rate the overall quality of this chapter?- Very Low Quality
- Low Quality
- Moderate Quality
- High Quality
- Very High Quality