Michael J Furlong
Biographic Data
| ID | 118960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Furlong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Furlong |
| SIGNATURE | FURLONG M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5011-4565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Validation of the Social–Emotional Health Survey Sehs‐S‐2020 in Slovakia
The aim of the present study was to validate the Social–Emotional Health Survey‐Secondary (SEHS‐S‐2020) in Slovak adolescents. The SEHS‐S‐2020 measures a higher‐order covitality latent construct and its four domains—belief in self, belief in others, emotional competence, and engaged living. Following a two‐step reverse translation, reliability and construct validity were examined in a sample of 1515 high school students. Primary confirmatory fact…
Growing Minds, Diverging Paths: Psychological Suzhi Trajectories and Adolescent Adjustment in China
Japanese cultural adaptation and validation of the social emotional health survey-secondary for junior high school students
The Social Emotional Health Survey–Secondary (SEHS-S) assesses adolescents’ psychological dispositions associated with positive psychosocial development. The present study extended SEHS–S research by validating the SEHS-S with a nonwestern sample of Japanese junior high school students (Grades 7–9; N = 1,181) and investigating sex and grade level difference in Covitality and four domains of positive psychological dispositions (Belief-in-Self, Bel…
Covitality and life satisfaction: A multilevel analysis of bullying experiences and their relation with School attachment
Diminished Adolescent Social Well-Being During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Managing the COVID-19 pandemic involved implementing public health policies that disrupted students’ lives, creating conditions that substantially influenced their mental health and well-being. Subsequently, research focused on the mental health sequelae of increased depression and anxiety, but the possible impacts on adolescents’ social well-being have been largely unexamined. Social well-being is essential to youth’s overall mental health and c…
Development and preliminary validation of the parent version of the Social Emotional Health Survey‐Secondary
The Social and Emotional Health Survey‐Secondary (SEHS‐S) is a widely used self‐report measure of adolescents' strengths and positive mental health. However, the SEHS‐S does not have a proxy (i.e., parent) informant version. A parent form of the SEHS‐S could allow school psychologists to gather additional information about students' strengths for intervention and assessment purposes. The development of this measure included three phases. First, w…
Social support profiles associations with adolescents' psychological and academic functioning
Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (Sehs-S): A Universal Screening Measure of Social-Emotional Strengths for Spanish-Speaking Adolescents
The Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S), which is a measure of core psychological assets based on a higher-order model of Covitality, is comprised of 36 items and four latent traits (with three measured subscales): belief in self (self-efficacy, self-awareness, and persistence), belief in others (school support, family coherence, and peer support), emotional competence (emotional regulation, behavioral self-control, and empathy), an…
Adolescents’ Personality Traits and Positive Psychological Orientations: Relations with Emotional Distress and Life Satisfaction Mediated by School Connectedness
School‐wide implementation of positive behavioral interventions and supports in an alternative school setting: A case study
AIMS: The purpose of this 1-year case study was to identify how School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS) can be adapted to meet the needs of students in alternative schools and to evaluate the early impact of SW-PBIS on discipline outcomes. METHODS: Suggestions for adaptations are provided at each stage of the intervention process with a focus on buy-in, training, data collection, and resource allocation. RESULTS: Data…
Protecting youth from gang membership: Individual and school‐level emotional competence
The current study examined the association between adolescent emotional competence, operationalized and measured at both the individual and the school levels, and gang membership. The study involved a sample of 12,040 students (51.4% females; mean = 16.9 years) participating in the biennial state department of education coordinated California Healthy Kids Survey, which assesses a range of adolescent health‐related behaviors. Hierarchical linear m…
Positive psychology constructs as predictors of depression in retirees
This study investigated whether five positive psychological constructs (self-efficacy, gratitude, grit, hope and optimism) had a combined effect on levels of depression. The co-occurrence of these psychological factors, defined as an example of covitality, was examined in relation to predicting lower levels of depression. Participants were 278 retirees living in Brisbane, Australia. Each participant completed either an online or hard-copy self-re…
School Sense of Community, Teacher Support, and Students’ School Safety Perceptions
Highlights The association between school climate and students’ perceptions of unsafety at school was examined. School climate (SoC and teacher support) was measured both at the individual and at the school level. At the individual level, sense of community and teacher support were negatively associated with unsafety. At the school level, sense of community was negatively associated with unsafe feelings. Findings support the need to implement int…
Social and Emotional Psychological Factors Associated With Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of Turkish and California Adolescents
This study examined the relations between core psychological self-schemas and the subjective well-being (SWB) of Turkish and California (United States) adolescents. The participants were 2,242 high school students (1,123 from Turkey and 1,119 from California). Core psychological self-schemas were measured with the Social and Emotional Health Survey–Secondary (SEHS-S) and SWB was measured by the combination of the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale…
Subsistence Farmers’ Management of Infestations of the Little Fire Ant in Garden Plots on Bauro, Makira Province, Solomon Islands
An Exploration of Effects of Bullying Victimization From a Complete Mental Health Perspective
This study explored the effects of being bullied from a dual-factor lens, specifically examining the relation between victimization and constructs that contribute to social-emotional well-being. Prior to carrying out the main analyses, the factor structure of self-report items related to experiencing bullying and harassment from the California Healthy Kids Survey, which was administered to more than 14,000 high school students, was examined to es…
Validation of the Social Emotional Health Survey–Secondary for Korean Students
A Latent Transition Mixture Model Using the Three-Step Specification
The 3-step method for estimating the effects of auxiliary variables (i.e., covariates and distal outcome) in mixture modeling provides a useful way to specify complex mixture models. One of the benefits of this method is that the measurement parameters of the mixture model are not influenced by the auxiliary variable(s). In addition, it allows for models that involve multiple latent class variables to be specified without each part of the model i…
Preliminary Development and Validation of the Social and Emotional Health Survey for Secondary School Students
Preliminary Development of the Positive Experiences at School Scale for Elementary School Children
A Preliminary Examination of Covitality as Integrated Well-Being in College Students
Exploring patterns of Latino/a children's school readiness at kindergarten entry and their relations with Grade 2 achievement
Getting precise and pragmatic about the assessment of bullying: The development of the California Bullying Victimization Scale
Accurate assessment of bullying is essential to intervention planning and evaluation. Limitations to many currently available self-report measures of bullying victimization include a lack of psychometric information, use of the emotionally laden term "bullying" in definition-first approaches to self-report surveys, and not assessing all components of the definition of bullying (chronicity, intentionality, and imbalance of power) in behavioral-bas…
How Safe Are Our Schools
Schools are basically safe places for children. School violence and disruption, although in decline through the mid- to late 1990s, remains a concern. National surveys that inform research, policy, and practice have been designed for different purposes and can present conflicting findings. Common standards of risk and harm that could advance policy and practice are lacking. Progress in the field of school safety has been hindered by the lack of a…
Student engagement with school: Critical conceptual and methodological issues of the construct
Research supports the connection between engagement, achievement, and school behavior across levels of economic and social advantage and disadvantage. Despite increasing interest and scientific findings, a number of interrelated conceptual and methodological issues must be addressed to advance this construct, particularly for designing data‐supported interventions that promote school completion and enhanced educational outcomes for all students. …
Preliminary Development and Validation of the Social and Emotional Health Survey for Secondary School Students
Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Student Self-Reports of Campus Violence
A Preliminary Examination of Covitality as Integrated Well-Being in College Students
Exploring patterns of Latino/a children's school readiness at kindergarten entry and their relations with Grade 2 achievement
Time, Aging, and the Continuity of Social Structure: Themes and Issues in Generational Analysis 1
Generational analysis has developed rapidly in recent years. Three progressive stages of theory and research can be traced: (a) a “classic” period during which competing perspectives were developed regarding the impact of youth groups on social structure (Mannheim, Parsons and Eisenstadt, Davis and others); (b) a phase focused on interpretations of the youth protest movement or on processes in old age, and characterized by the development of new …
Getting precise and pragmatic about the assessment of bullying: The development of the California Bullying Victimization Scale
Accurate assessment of bullying is essential to intervention planning and evaluation. Limitations to many currently available self-report measures of bullying victimization include a lack of psychometric information, use of the emotionally laden term "bullying" in definition-first approaches to self-report surveys, and not assessing all components of the definition of bullying (chronicity, intentionality, and imbalance of power) in behavioral-bas…
How Safe Are Our Schools
Schools are basically safe places for children. School violence and disruption, although in decline through the mid- to late 1990s, remains a concern. National surveys that inform research, policy, and practice have been designed for different purposes and can present conflicting findings. Common standards of risk and harm that could advance policy and practice are lacking. Progress in the field of school safety has been hindered by the lack of a…
Preliminary Development of the Positive Experiences at School Scale for Elementary School Children
School Sense of Community, Teacher Support, and Students’ School Safety Perceptions
Highlights The association between school climate and students’ perceptions of unsafety at school was examined. School climate (SoC and teacher support) was measured both at the individual and at the school level. At the individual level, sense of community and teacher support were negatively associated with unsafety. At the school level, sense of community was negatively associated with unsafe feelings. Findings support the need to implement int…
Insecticide use: Contexts and ecological consequences
Social and Emotional Psychological Factors Associated With Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of Turkish and California Adolescents
This study examined the relations between core psychological self-schemas and the subjective well-being (SWB) of Turkish and California (United States) adolescents. The participants were 2,242 high school students (1,123 from Turkey and 1,119 from California). Core psychological self-schemas were measured with the Social and Emotional Health Survey–Secondary (SEHS-S) and SWB was measured by the combination of the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale…
Adolescents’ Personality Traits and Positive Psychological Orientations: Relations with Emotional Distress and Life Satisfaction Mediated by School Connectedness
An Exploration of Effects of Bullying Victimization From a Complete Mental Health Perspective
This study explored the effects of being bullied from a dual-factor lens, specifically examining the relation between victimization and constructs that contribute to social-emotional well-being. Prior to carrying out the main analyses, the factor structure of self-report items related to experiencing bullying and harassment from the California Healthy Kids Survey, which was administered to more than 14,000 high school students, was examined to es…
School‐wide implementation of positive behavioral interventions and supports in an alternative school setting: A case study
AIMS: The purpose of this 1-year case study was to identify how School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS) can be adapted to meet the needs of students in alternative schools and to evaluate the early impact of SW-PBIS on discipline outcomes. METHODS: Suggestions for adaptations are provided at each stage of the intervention process with a focus on buy-in, training, data collection, and resource allocation. RESULTS: Data…
Protecting youth from gang membership: Individual and school‐level emotional competence
The current study examined the association between adolescent emotional competence, operationalized and measured at both the individual and the school levels, and gang membership. The study involved a sample of 12,040 students (51.4% females; mean = 16.9 years) participating in the biennial state department of education coordinated California Healthy Kids Survey, which assesses a range of adolescent health‐related behaviors. Hierarchical linear m…
Validation of the Social Emotional Health Survey–Secondary for Korean Students
Using Student Risk Factors in School Violence Surveillance Reports: Illustrative Examples for Enhanced Policy Formation, Implementation, and Evaluation
This article presents information about the range and type of violent and associated behaviors that occur on American school campuses. We argue that the prevailing practice of reporting single‐item population estimate trends from school violence surveillance surveys provides an incomplete basis upon which to form and evaluate public policy related to school violence. The presentation draws upon information derived from the 1993, 1995, 1997, and 1…
Time, Aging, and the Continuity of Social Structure: Themes and Issues in Generational Analysis
Generational analysis has developed rapidly in recent years. Three progressive stages of theory and research can be traced: (a) a “classic” period during which competing perspectives were developed regarding the impact of youth groups on social structure (Mannheim, Parsons and Eisenstadt, Davis and others); (b) a phase focused on interpretations of the youth protest movement or on processes in old age, and characterized by the development of new …
Positive psychology constructs as predictors of depression in retirees
This study investigated whether five positive psychological constructs (self-efficacy, gratitude, grit, hope and optimism) had a combined effect on levels of depression. The co-occurrence of these psychological factors, defined as an example of covitality, was examined in relation to predicting lower levels of depression. Participants were 278 retirees living in Brisbane, Australia. Each participant completed either an online or hard-copy self-re…
Computer-Assisted Training of the DSM-III-R in Counselor Education
This article reviews various computer programs that can be used as part of a comprehensive curriculum to train counselors on how to better understand and use the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R; American Psychiatric Association, 1987
Family Planning Opinion Leadership in Korea, 1971
The characteristics of Korean family planning opinion leaders are assessed through a secondary analysis of the 1971 national survey conducted by the Korean Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences. In effect, what characterized Korean family planning opinion leaders was a rather national and democratic model. Those who had tried methods, discussed them, and knew a lot about them assumed leadership roles more than others. Place of residen…
Time, Aging, and the Continuity of Social Structure: Themes and Issues in Generational Analysis 1
Generational analysis has developed rapidly in recent years. Three progressive stages of theory and research can be traced: (a) a “classic” period during which competing perspectives were developed regarding the impact of youth groups on social structure (Mannheim, Parsons and Eisenstadt, Davis and others); (b) a phase focused on interpretations of the youth protest movement or on processes in old age, and characterized by the development of new …
Family Planning Opinion Leadership in Korea, 1971
The characteristics of Korean family planning opinion leaders are assessed through a secondary analysis of the 1971 national survey conducted by the Korean Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences. In effect, what characterized Korean family planning opinion leaders was a rather national and democratic model. Those who had tried methods, discussed them, and knew a lot about them assumed leadership roles more than others. Place of residen…
Time, Aging, and the Continuity of Social Structure: Themes and Issues in Generational Analysis
Generational analysis has developed rapidly in recent years. Three progressive stages of theory and research can be traced: (a) a “classic” period during which competing perspectives were developed regarding the impact of youth groups on social structure (Mannheim, Parsons and Eisenstadt, Davis and others); (b) a phase focused on interpretations of the youth protest movement or on processes in old age, and characterized by the development of new …
Computer-Assisted Training of the DSM-III-R in Counselor Education
This article reviews various computer programs that can be used as part of a comprehensive curriculum to train counselors on how to better understand and use the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R; American Psychiatric Association, 1987
Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Student Self-Reports of Campus Violence
Using Student Risk Factors in School Violence Surveillance Reports: Illustrative Examples for Enhanced Policy Formation, Implementation, and Evaluation
This article presents information about the range and type of violent and associated behaviors that occur on American school campuses. We argue that the prevailing practice of reporting single‐item population estimate trends from school violence surveillance surveys provides an incomplete basis upon which to form and evaluate public policy related to school violence. The presentation draws upon information derived from the 1993, 1995, 1997, and 1…
Insecticide use: Contexts and ecological consequences
Student engagement with school: Critical conceptual and methodological issues of the construct
Research supports the connection between engagement, achievement, and school behavior across levels of economic and social advantage and disadvantage. Despite increasing interest and scientific findings, a number of interrelated conceptual and methodological issues must be addressed to advance this construct, particularly for designing data‐supported interventions that promote school completion and enhanced educational outcomes for all students. …
Relations among school connectedness, hope, life satisfaction, and bully victimization
This study investigates the role of school connectedness in mediating the relation between students' sense of hope and life satisfaction for three groups: Bullied Victims, Peer Victims, and Nonvictims. Students in grades 5 to 12 ( N = 866) completed the California Bully/Victim Scale, School Connectedness Scale, Children's Hope Scale, and Students' Life Satisfaction Scale. Multigroup latent mean analysis revealed significant group mean differences…
How Safe Are Our Schools
Schools are basically safe places for children. School violence and disruption, although in decline through the mid- to late 1990s, remains a concern. National surveys that inform research, policy, and practice have been designed for different purposes and can present conflicting findings. Common standards of risk and harm that could advance policy and practice are lacking. Progress in the field of school safety has been hindered by the lack of a…
Getting precise and pragmatic about the assessment of bullying: The development of the California Bullying Victimization Scale
Accurate assessment of bullying is essential to intervention planning and evaluation. Limitations to many currently available self-report measures of bullying victimization include a lack of psychometric information, use of the emotionally laden term "bullying" in definition-first approaches to self-report surveys, and not assessing all components of the definition of bullying (chronicity, intentionality, and imbalance of power) in behavioral-bas…
Exploring patterns of Latino/a children's school readiness at kindergarten entry and their relations with Grade 2 achievement
Preliminary Development of the Positive Experiences at School Scale for Elementary School Children
A Preliminary Examination of Covitality as Integrated Well-Being in College Students
A Latent Transition Mixture Model Using the Three-Step Specification
The 3-step method for estimating the effects of auxiliary variables (i.e., covariates and distal outcome) in mixture modeling provides a useful way to specify complex mixture models. One of the benefits of this method is that the measurement parameters of the mixture model are not influenced by the auxiliary variable(s). In addition, it allows for models that involve multiple latent class variables to be specified without each part of the model i…
Preliminary Development and Validation of the Social and Emotional Health Survey for Secondary School Students
Validation of the Social Emotional Health Survey–Secondary for Korean Students
Subsistence Farmers’ Management of Infestations of the Little Fire Ant in Garden Plots on Bauro, Makira Province, Solomon Islands
An Exploration of Effects of Bullying Victimization From a Complete Mental Health Perspective
This study explored the effects of being bullied from a dual-factor lens, specifically examining the relation between victimization and constructs that contribute to social-emotional well-being. Prior to carrying out the main analyses, the factor structure of self-report items related to experiencing bullying and harassment from the California Healthy Kids Survey, which was administered to more than 14,000 high school students, was examined to es…
School Sense of Community, Teacher Support, and Students’ School Safety Perceptions
Highlights The association between school climate and students’ perceptions of unsafety at school was examined. School climate (SoC and teacher support) was measured both at the individual and at the school level. At the individual level, sense of community and teacher support were negatively associated with unsafety. At the school level, sense of community was negatively associated with unsafe feelings. Findings support the need to implement int…
Social and Emotional Psychological Factors Associated With Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of Turkish and California Adolescents
This study examined the relations between core psychological self-schemas and the subjective well-being (SWB) of Turkish and California (United States) adolescents. The participants were 2,242 high school students (1,123 from Turkey and 1,119 from California). Core psychological self-schemas were measured with the Social and Emotional Health Survey–Secondary (SEHS-S) and SWB was measured by the combination of the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale…
Positive psychology constructs as predictors of depression in retirees
This study investigated whether five positive psychological constructs (self-efficacy, gratitude, grit, hope and optimism) had a combined effect on levels of depression. The co-occurrence of these psychological factors, defined as an example of covitality, was examined in relation to predicting lower levels of depression. Participants were 278 retirees living in Brisbane, Australia. Each participant completed either an online or hard-copy self-re…
Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (Sehs-S): A Universal Screening Measure of Social-Emotional Strengths for Spanish-Speaking Adolescents
The Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S), which is a measure of core psychological assets based on a higher-order model of Covitality, is comprised of 36 items and four latent traits (with three measured subscales): belief in self (self-efficacy, self-awareness, and persistence), belief in others (school support, family coherence, and peer support), emotional competence (emotional regulation, behavioral self-control, and empathy), an…
Adolescents’ Personality Traits and Positive Psychological Orientations: Relations with Emotional Distress and Life Satisfaction Mediated by School Connectedness
School‐wide implementation of positive behavioral interventions and supports in an alternative school setting: A case study
AIMS: The purpose of this 1-year case study was to identify how School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS) can be adapted to meet the needs of students in alternative schools and to evaluate the early impact of SW-PBIS on discipline outcomes. METHODS: Suggestions for adaptations are provided at each stage of the intervention process with a focus on buy-in, training, data collection, and resource allocation. RESULTS: Data…
Psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Developmental psychology (19 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (11 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (8 works) · Mental health (8 works)