The Multidimensional Student Well-being (MSW) instrument : Conceptualisation, measurement, and differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous primary and secondary students
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Craven, Rhonda Gai, Marsh, Herbert Warren, Yeung, See Shing, Cunha Vasconcellos, Diego Itibere, Dillon, Anthony William Oswald, Ryan, Richard Michael, Mooney, Janet, Franklin, Alicia, Barclay, Lily and van Westenbrugge, Annalies. (2024). The Multidimensional Student Well-being (MSW) instrument : Conceptualisation, measurement, and differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous primary and secondary students. Contemporary Educational Psychology. 77, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2024.102274
Authors | Craven, Rhonda Gai, Marsh, Herbert Warren, Yeung, See Shing, Cunha Vasconcellos, Diego Itibere, Dillon, Anthony William Oswald, Ryan, Richard Michael, Mooney, Janet, Franklin, Alicia, Barclay, Lily and van Westenbrugge, Annalies |
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Abstract | Enabling children’s and youth’s well-being is widely valued by families and communities worldwide. However, there is no general agreement about the structure and measurement of well-being in schooling contexts, nor in particular for Indigenous students who comprise some of the most educationally disadvantaged populations in the world. We theorised a multidimensional student well-being model and the Multidimensional Student Well-being (MSW) instrument, grounded on recent research. We investigated its structure, measurement, and relation to correlates of well-being for a matched sample of 1,405 Australian students (Indigenous, N = 764; non-Indigenous, N = 641) at three time-points, 10–12 months apart. Analyses supported an a priori multidimensional model of 6 higher-order domains of well-being, represented by 15 first-order factors. This structure was invariant across Indigenous and non-Indigenous, male and female, and primary and secondary schooling levels. Correlates provided support for convergent and discriminant validity. There was a downward trend in well-being over time, which calls for attention to multidimensional domains of students’ well-being to promote healthy development throughout school life and beyond. The results support a multidimensional model of student well-being appropriate for primary and secondary schooling and both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. |
Keywords | Subjective well-being ; Indigenous research ; Assessment ; Convergent and discriminant validity ; Factor analysis |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Journal | Contemporary Educational Psychology |
Journal citation | 77, pp. 1-16 |
Publisher | Elsevier Science BV |
ISSN | 0361-476X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2024.102274 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361476X24000195?via%3Dihub |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-16 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 03 Sep 2024 |
Additional information | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. |
This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | |
Place of publication | United States |
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