About the Measure
| Domains | Mental health and wellbeing, Resilience and coping, Social and Emotional Competence |
| Key stages | Key Stage 1 |
| Subscales | Making contact/social performance; Self control/thoughtfulness; Self-assertiveness; Emotional stability/coping with stress; Task orientation; Pleasure in exploration. |
| Description | PERIK is an instrument for practitioners to observe and assess preschool children’s well-being in early childhood settings. |
| Example | The child enjoys relating tells his/her experiences, e.g. about the weekend |
| Link | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09575140802636290 |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 36 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Teacher |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 3-6 |
| Cost single purchase | Available in jou |
| Cost per child | Available in jou |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .81-.88 |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | 6-factor orthogo |
| CFA | Not reported |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Not reported |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Myer, T., & Ulich, M. (2009). Social‐emotional well‐being and resilience of children in early childhood settings – PERIK: an empirically based observation scale for practitioners. Early years, 29 (1), 45-57. doi:10.1080/09575140802636290 |