Psychometric evaluation of student subjective wellbeing questionnaire for adolescents in Pakistan
摘要
Wellbeing is the indicator that provides details about future behavior and the scale for measuring wellbeing pertaining to have high importance for both health and educational settings. The following study was intended to address the psychometric evaluation of the Student subjective wellbeing questionnaire (SSWQ) in Pakistan. Data for the research was collected from public school adolescents (10 to 19 years). The sample was drawn through a non-random sampling technique using Cross-sectional research design based on two phases. Results of the first phase included 64 adolescents belonging from Rawalpindi indicated that the SSWQ has good reliabilities above 0.70 for the English and Urdu version. After two weeks, Pearson product-moment correlation was calculated to test cross-language validation which also indicated correlation as r = 0.84. Later on, confirmatory factor analysis of the second phase (n = 910) highlighted that the SSWQ is an adequately reliable and valid scale for measuring the construct of wellbeing among adolescents in educational setting.