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ERIC Number: EJ1452670
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jan
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0033-3085
EISSN: EISSN-1520-6807
College Students' Journey to Wellness: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Journey to Wellness Scale
Annabel W. Li; Achilles N. Bardos
Psychology in the Schools, v62 n1 p113-135 2025
The mental health of college students in the United States has been a longstanding national concern, which has only been exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Journey to Wellness Scale (JWS) is a newly developed instrument grounded in empirical research in prevention, positive psychology, resilience, and social-emotional learning, designed to measure psychological wellbeing in adults, including college students, across 10 dimensions: Adaptability, Initiative, Conscientiousness, Connectedness, Social Competence, Empathy, Optimism, Emotional Self-Regulation, Mindfulness, and Self-Efficacy. The JWS, a 60-item self-report instrument, requires participants to rate their endorsement of the items on a Likert-type scale. The current study explored the adequacy of the JWS in measuring psychological wellness by confirmatory factor analysis with a sample of 722 college students. Results indicated that the JWS reliably captured the 10 dimensions and effectively measured overall psychological wellness. These findings support the JWS as a valid tool for assessing psychological wellness in the college student population. Future research directions and implications of the study were discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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