About the Measure
Domains | Mental health and wellbeing |
Key stages | Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
Subscales | Comprehensibility; Manageability; Meaningfulness |
Description | A global measure of sense of cohesion and three correlated components of comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness which has been validated with adolescents. |
Example | Do you have very mixed up feelings and ideas? |
Link | https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11205-013-0536-z.pdf |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
No. of items | 13 |
Format | Likert |
Respondent | Self |
Scoring | Standardised |
Time | 0 |
Age | 13-18 |
Cost single purchase | Available in jou |
Cost per child | Available in jou |
Psychometric details
UK norms | No |
Cronbach's α | .84 |
Test retest | Not reported |
Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
EFA | Not reported |
CFA | 3 factors Chi-square(61)= 149.66 RMSEA= .04 CFI= .99 |
Criterion validity | Not reported |
Construct validity | Not reported |
Concurrent validity | Not reported |
Predictive validity | Not reported |
Responsiveness | Not reported |
Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
References | Moksnes, U. K., & Haugan, G. (2014). Validation of the orientation to life questionnaire in Norwegian adolescents, construct validity across samples. Social Indicators Research, 119(2), 1105-1120. doi:10.1007/s11205-013-0536-z |