About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing, Social and Emotional Competence |
| Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 |
| Subscales | Emotional difficulties; Behavioural difficulties |
| Description | A brief-self report measure of children's mental health and wellbeing. |
| Example | I feel lonely |
| Link | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0734282912465570 |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 16 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 8-12 |
| Cost single purchase | Free - Available |
| Cost per child | Free - Available |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | Yes |
| Cronbach's α | .72-.80 |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | 3-factor oblique |
| CFA | 2-factor correlated model CFI = .93 TLI= .92 RMSEA= .06 |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Academic achievement, r= [-.19,-.12]; Special Educational Needs, r= [.09,.17]; Deprivation, r= [.03,.13] |
| Concurrent validity | Similar self-report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) Subscales, r= .70; Similar parent-report SDQ subscales, r= [.29,.33] |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Deighton, J., Tymms, P., Vostanis, P., Belsky, J., Fonagy, P., Brown, A., & Wolpert, M. (2013). The development of a school-based measure of child mental health. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 31(3), 247-257. doi:10.1177/0734282912465570 |