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 |