Name | Psychosocial measure | Abbreviation (in this study) | Short description |
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KIDSCREEN-10 Index [58] | Health-related quality of life – HRQoL | KIDS-10 | • Short version of KIDSCREEN-52; • Used in the HBSC/WHO Study [43, 52, 53]; • 10 items, on a 5-point Likert-type scale; • Ranges from 0 to 100; • Lower values reflect feelings of unhappiness, dissatisfaction and inadequacy. Higher values reveal feelings of happiness, perception of adequacy and satisfaction with the adolescent’s life contexts. • α = .83 |
Symptoms Check List (SCL-HBSC) [59] | Psychosomatic health complaints (unidimensional latent trait). | SCL | • Used in the HBSC/WHO Study [43, 52, 53]; • 8 items focusing on subjective physical and psychological health complaints; • Each item answered on a 5-point Likert-type response scale; • Resultant values between 1 (worst health) and 5 (best health); • Ranges from 8 to 40. • α = .78 |
Healthy Kids Resilience Assessment Module [60] | Resilience (2 dimensions: external and internal resources). | RES | • The present study only considered the internal resources dimension; • 18 items answered on a 4-point scale; • Ranges from 18 to 72; • Higher scores indicate higher levels of competences, protection and resilience to adversity. • α = .0.72 |
Adolescent Self-Regulatory Inventory – ASRI [61] | Self-regulation (2 dimensions: Short term-SR-ST and Long term-SR-LT). | SR | • In this study the instrument was translated from the original English version into Portuguese language. It was then revised by a group of specialized experts within this field and a pre-test with a group of students was conducted in schools. • 36 items answered on a 5-point Likert scale; • Ranges from 36 to 180. • Higher values indicate better competences of self-regulation. • α = .0.79 |
Satisfaction with social support (2 dimensions: Satisfaction with Social Support-SSS; and Need for Activities connected to Social Support-NASS). | SSSS | • Translation and adaptation for children and adolescents of a Satisfaction with Social Support Scale for adults [63]; • 12 items answered on a 5-point scale; • Ranges from 18 to 72; • Higher scores indicate higher satisfaction with social support (SSS) or higher satisfaction for not feeling the need to have more social support activities (NASS). • α = .85 |