Measuring Adolescents’ Well‑Being in Schools: The Adaptation and Translation of the EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Well‑Being—A Validation Study

Autor(en)

Sarah Bürger, Julia Holzer, Takuya Yanagida, Barbara Schober, Christiane Spiel

Abstrakt

This paper addresses a validation study focusing on the process of adapting the EPOCH measure of adolescent well-being (Kern et al. in Psychol Assess 28(5):586–597. doi.org/10.1037/pas0000201, 2016) to the school context and translating it into German—resulting in the EPOCH-School model (EPOCH-S) with the corresponding measure EPOCH-G-S (EPOCH-German-School). As schools represent an important context for promoting well-being, while at the same time, favorable effects of school-related well-being for adolescent development can be expected, research on school-related well-being is of utmost interest. To provide schools with the information they actually need to promote their students’ well-being, integrative measurements of school-related well-being are important. The EPOCH-G-S is a multidimensional approach to measuring students’ well-being in schools with five factors: Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness. Construct validity and convergent validity of the EPOCH-G-S measure were validated in this study with an Austrian student sample (grade 5 to 12) of N = 1651 students (52.03% males, 47.43% females, 0.55% others, mean age 13.13 years/ SD = 1.89). Validation results are in favor of the EPOCH-G-S as an instrument to assess students’ well-being in school. A second-order model was applied with well-being as a second-order factor and the five specific EPOCH first-order factors. This allows for detecting strengths and weaknesses in students’ well-being profiles and derive needs for intervention. Additional measurement invariance analyses regarding gender and age were conducted.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Psychologie der Entwicklung und Bildung

Journal

School Mental Health

Band

15

Seiten

611-626

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

1866-2633

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-023-09574-1

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501002 Angewandte Psychologie, 501016 Pädagogische Psychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/4d29c896-c4b4-42f7-8c69-dde795558b84