The Subjective Wellbeing of High-School Students: Validating the Personal Wellbeing Index—School Children

By A. Tomyn, Robert Cummins. 2011

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The Personal Wellbeing Index—School Children (PWI-SC) is designed as a parallel form of the adult PWI-A, to measure subjective wellbeing. This study examines the psychometric properties of the PWI-SC. Data from 351 students, aged between 12 and 20 years, were collected by two independent studies over the years 2005–2006. Using the combined data, the results indicate good psychometric properties for the PWI-SC. It is also found that females have higher SWB but that both genders show an age-related decline in SWB from early to mid adolescence. Notably, School satisfaction meets the criteria for a new domain for the PWI-SC and should be considered for inclusion in a future revision of the scale. The use of the PWI-SC in schools can provide important information for the development of educational policy.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Testing the Personal Wellbeing Index on 12–16 Year-Old Adolescents in 3 Different Countries with 2 New Items (2012, background): “ Tomyn and Cummins (2010) have very recently proposed including a new item in the”
Measures of Children’s Subjective Well-Being: Analysis of the Potential for Cross-National Comparisons (2015, methodology): “The PWI-SC has been validated in Australia (Tomyn and Cummins 2011).”
Subjective Wellbeing and Homeostatically Protected Mood: Theory Validation With Adolescents (2011, background): “For example, the PWIA item ‘How satisfied are you with your future security’? was re-worded to ‘How satisfied are you about what may happen to you later on in your life? This study also included a new item on satisfaction with School (Tomyn and Cummins 2010).”
Measuring children and young people’s wellbeing in the school context (2015, result): “…in school (Gutman, Brown, Akerman, & Obolenskaya, 2010), the decline in girls’ wellbeing during adolescence has been demonstrated in other studies (Tomyn & Cummins, 2011) and studies looking at adulthood have also shown that women report experiencing less wellbeing than men (Stevenson & Wolfers,…”