The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood
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Homel, Ross
Branch, Sara
Allen, Jacqueline
McGee, Tara Renae
Vasco, Daniela
Haskard, Kathy
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The need for a new measure of social-emotional wellbeing for children 6–12 years emerged in our collaboration with schools and community agencies in a disadvantaged region of Brisbane, Australia. Our search for an age-appropriate medium led us to develop Clowning Around, a computer game generating data which was assessed for validity and reliability in Study 1 (N = 3,461), revealing four wellbeing factors with satisfactory properties. The imperative to support autonomous use at scale led to development of the Rumble’s Quest user management system and game app, incorporating a slightly modified version of the measure. Reassessment of the factor structure (Study 2: N = 4,333) supported Study 1 results but extended factors to five: School Attachment, Social Wellbeing, Emotional Wellbeing, Family Support, and Behavioral Conformity. The measure exhibits sound convergent and concurrent validity and is a reliable and practical tool for data-guided service planning and evaluation, and for monitoring child wellbeing trends.
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Applied Developmental Science
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© 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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Sociology
Applied and developmental psychology
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Psychology, Developmental
Psychology
SELF-PERCEPTION PROFILE
PSYCHOLOGICAL SENSE
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Freiberg, K; Homel, R; Branch, S; Allen, J; McGee, TR; Vasco, D; Haskard, K, The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood, Applied Developmental Science, 2023