Developing Scale for School Well-Being in Adolescents

Based on the concept and construct of school well-being proposed in this paper,the Scale for School Well-Being in Adolescents was developed.Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted.The results showed that:(1) school well-being consisted of school satisfaction,positive affect and negative affect in Chinese students' school lives;(2) school satisfaction was a six-dimension structure comprised of achievement,school management, teacher-student relationship,peer relationship,teaching and school work;the positive affect in school and negative affect in school were both one-dimension structure;(3) the Scale for School Well-Being in Adolescents had good reliability and validity and could be used in other studies.