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 |