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Extending Validation of a Social Emotional Health Measure For Middle School Students
The Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary-2020 (SEHS-S-2020) is a well-studied option for assessing social emotional health to support students within a multitiered system of school support. While a growing body of literature supports the SEHS-S-2020 measure for assessing student covitality, ther...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8941839/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35345478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40688-022-00411-x |
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author | Furlong, Michael J. Paz, Jennica L. Carter, Delwin Dowdy, Erin Nylund-Gibson, Karen |
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description | The Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary-2020 (SEHS-S-2020) is a well-studied option for assessing social emotional health to support students within a multitiered system of school support. While a growing body of literature supports the SEHS-S-2020 measure for assessing student covitality, there is less validation evidence specifically for middle-school-aged students. The present study aimed to fill this gap in the literature by examining its use for younger adolescents. Study participants were from two samples, including a cross-sectional sample with 9,426 students in Grades 7–8 from 32 counties in California and a longitudinal sample with 414 students in Grades 6–8 from two middle schools. Data analyses examined structural validity, internal consistency, measurement invariance, criterion validity, predictive validity, and response stability. Results indicate excellent fit indices for a four-level higher-order measurement model, with adequate concurrent and one-year predictive validity coefficients, supporting the use of the SEHS-S-2020 measure with young adolescents in middle school settings. The discussion focuses on implications for assessing students’ psychosocial assets, universal school-based screening, and cultural and intersectionality considerations when interpreting SEHS-S-2020 responses. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40688-022-00411-x. |
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spelling | pubmed-89418392022-03-24 Extending Validation of a Social Emotional Health Measure For Middle School Students Furlong, Michael J. Paz, Jennica L. Carter, Delwin Dowdy, Erin Nylund-Gibson, Karen Contemp Sch Psychol Article The Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary-2020 (SEHS-S-2020) is a well-studied option for assessing social emotional health to support students within a multitiered system of school support. While a growing body of literature supports the SEHS-S-2020 measure for assessing student covitality, there is less validation evidence specifically for middle-school-aged students. The present study aimed to fill this gap in the literature by examining its use for younger adolescents. Study participants were from two samples, including a cross-sectional sample with 9,426 students in Grades 7–8 from 32 counties in California and a longitudinal sample with 414 students in Grades 6–8 from two middle schools. Data analyses examined structural validity, internal consistency, measurement invariance, criterion validity, predictive validity, and response stability. Results indicate excellent fit indices for a four-level higher-order measurement model, with adequate concurrent and one-year predictive validity coefficients, supporting the use of the SEHS-S-2020 measure with young adolescents in middle school settings. The discussion focuses on implications for assessing students’ psychosocial assets, universal school-based screening, and cultural and intersectionality considerations when interpreting SEHS-S-2020 responses. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40688-022-00411-x. Springer New York 2022-03-23 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC8941839/ /pubmed/35345478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40688-022-00411-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Furlong, Michael J. Paz, Jennica L. Carter, Delwin Dowdy, Erin Nylund-Gibson, Karen Extending Validation of a Social Emotional Health Measure For Middle School Students |
title | Extending Validation of a Social Emotional Health Measure For Middle School Students |
title_full | Extending Validation of a Social Emotional Health Measure For Middle School Students |
title_fullStr | Extending Validation of a Social Emotional Health Measure For Middle School Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Extending Validation of a Social Emotional Health Measure For Middle School Students |
title_short | Extending Validation of a Social Emotional Health Measure For Middle School Students |
title_sort | extending validation of a social emotional health measure for middle school students |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8941839/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35345478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40688-022-00411-x |
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