The Simple School Belonging Scale: Working Toward a Unidimensional Measure of Student Belonging

Abstract

ABSTRACTResearch focused on student belonging has sometimes used available measures in a unidimensional way despite evidence of multidimensionality in these scales. This study introduces a new unidimensional measure of school belonging that is psychometrically robust with preliminary evidence of construct validity that we call the Simple School Belonging Scale (SSBS).