PA207: Are Parents and Caregivers Accurate Reporters of Student Subjective Well-Being

Wednesday, February 14, 2024
1:00 PM–1:50 PM CST

  • PMD: 4
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 9: Health and Well-Being

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. identify validated methods for assessing the subjective well-being of youth, including the use of self-report and secondary reporters;
  2. learn about a newly developed parent report measure of child life satisfaction; and
  3. understand the extent to which parent reports and self-reports of youth subjective well-being and affect converge when rating the same construct.

Description

Self-report has been the primary mode of assessing youth subjective well-being. Consider the use of secondary informants on a new parent report subjective well-being metric, including the convergence between scores.

Presenter(s)

Daijah N. Hines, University of South Florida
Shannon M. Suldo, PhD, University of South Florida
Sarah A. Fefer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stacy-Ann A. January, University of South Florida

Contributor(s)

John M. Ferron

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