'How I Feel About My School': The construction and validation of a measure of wellbeing at school for primary school children.

There is a growing focus on child wellbeing and happiness in schools, but we lack self-report measures for very young children. Three samples ( N = 2345) were combined to assess the psychometric properties of the How I Feel About My School (HIFAMS) questionnaire, which was designed for children aged 4-8 years. Test-retest reliability was moderate (intraclass correlation coefficient = .

Influence of problematic child-teacher relationships on future psychiatric disorder: population survey with 3-year follow-up.

Background: Teacher-pupil relationships have been found to mediate behavioural, social and psychological outcomes for children at different ages according to teacher and child report, but most studies have been small.

Aims: To explore later psychiatric disorder among children with problematic teacher-pupil relationships.

Method: Secondary analysis of a population-based cross-sectional survey of children aged 5-16 with a 3-year follow-up.