Overview
The Social Emotional Health Survey– Secondary (SEHS-S) and Social Emotional Health Survey– Primary (SEHS-P) are 36-item self-report measures that assess youth’s social and emotional strengths.
Key Details
Grade Level
Assessment Type
Domains Assessed
Respondent
Method
Cost
Fee for Service
Time per Student
unknown
Items
36.0
Item Format
Likert
Approach
Protective
Populations
Evidence comes from a sample of 4,189 California students in Grades 8, 10, and 12
Scoring
Overall Scores
Belief in Self
Belief in Others
Emotional Competence
Engaged Living
Subscale Scores
Self-Awareness
Persistence
Self-Efficacy
School Support
Family Coherence
Peer Support
Empathy
Self-Control
Behavioral Self-Control
Gratitude
Zest
Optimism
Scoring Procedures
Scoring Manual
Interpretive Information
T-Score
Psychometric Properties
Reliability
Structural stability was investigated with a sample of 115 students who completed the SEHS-S at two time periods, approximately one year apart (Furlong et al., 2014). Overall, researchers found the stability coefficients for four latent constructs of the SEHS-S, and the covitality meta-construct to have strong trait-like stability: belief-in-self (r12 = .56), belief-in-others (r12 = .57), emotional competence (r12 = .57), engaged living (r12 = .45), and covitality (r12 = .60).
Validity
Furlong et al. (2013) found evidence to support convergent validity of the SEHS-S. overall covitality levels were associated with higher academic achievement and perceptions of school safety, whereas lower levels of covitality were related to higher engagement in substance use and experiences of depressive symptoms. Taken together, these results provide evidence to support the theoretical model underlying the SEHS-S and its capacity to accurately and reliably measure the multidimensional covitality construct.
References
Primary Citation
Furlong, M. J., You, S., Renshaw, T. L., Smith, D. C., & O'Malley, M. D. (2014). Social and Emotional Health Survey (SEHS) [Database record]. APA PsycTests.
https://doi.org/10.1037/t47957-000