One of the most frequently mentioned topics from our K-12 and Higher Education clients continues to be students’ social-emotional wellness - and how to best help students become more aware of their social and emotional health.
Using the Qualtrics platform, the team at UC Santa Barbara developed the Student Self-care Wellness Check-in to provide a measure for schools to monitor students' positive well-being multiple times in a given school year. It is designed to support a student’s agency to build and sustain positive social-emotional development and mental wellness.
Information about the survey content is listed below. You can also preview an example of a report summarizing student responses. UCSB is currently seeking school districts interested in piloting this check-in survey with their students and participating in its further development.
Survey Content
This student wellness check-in survey has 31 items:
- 8 items on personal and social resources, like optimism, self-confidence
- 5 items on past 30-day emotional, psychological, and social well-being
- 5 items about life satisfaction: family, peer, school, self, where I live
- 2 items on global life satisfaction and mental health
- 5 Items on past month distress
- 6 demographic items
For more information see: Project Covitality or contact Michael via mfurlong@ucsb.edu
- Michael Furlong, PhD, University of California Santa Barbara
- Erin Dowdy, PhD, University of California Santa Barbara
- Tyler Renshaw, PhD, Utah State University
How does your school district evaluate your students’ wellness?
