Abstract
Recent literature on positive psychology underlines the crucial role of schools to create a psychologically healthy environment and to set programs and strategies fostering adolescents’ well-being. The aim of the present study is to validate a scale that measures scholastic satisfaction since a scientific evaluation and interventions on school satisfaction can help professionals to support adolescents’ positive development and school adjustment. We adapted the College Satisfaction Scale (CSS) and confirmed the previous five-dimensional structure also in a high school students’ sample (n = 792). The High-school Satisfaction Scale (H-Sat Scale) evaluates five dimensions of school satisfaction: appropriateness of choice (CH), quality of school services (SE), relationships with classmates (RE), effectiveness of study habits (ST) and usefulness for a future career (CA). The questionnaire consists of 20 items; it showed good psychometric features and, consistent with previous literature, confirmed its validity in relation to life satisfaction and quality of life of high school students. Compared with previous scales, the H-Sat evaluates two innovative areas of school satisfaction since it gives a measure of satisfaction in career path (appropriateness of choice and usefulness for future career) could help school counsellors to set interventions in this field.
Highlights
IntroductionIn the last decades many studies, adopting perspectives related on improving the level of quality of life, have focused on the detection of factors promoting people well-being
Research and studies on adolescents’ health have often focused on negative behaviours related to adverse health outcomes, but the most recent literature is looking mainly at protective factors [1].In the last decades many studies, adopting perspectives related on improving the level of quality of life, have focused on the detection of factors promoting people well-being
The questionnaire consists of 20 items; it showed good psychometric features and, consistent with previous literature, confirmed its validity in relation to life satisfaction and quality of life of high school students
Summary
In the last decades many studies, adopting perspectives related on improving the level of quality of life, have focused on the detection of factors promoting people well-being. It is both an individual and a social level issue, since understanding adolescents’ needs related to mental health is a basilar issue to let young people to fulfil their potential and to contribute to the development of our communities [2]. Satisfaction with the school and other domain-specific satisfaction in educational context are related to academic performance, engagement and academic progress at all educational levels, from primary school to the college [3,4,5,6]. Wilkins and colleagues [7] underlined that domain-specific satisfaction predicted sub-dimensions of intended academic persistence and Cock and Halvari [8]
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