+Sense of Belonging Scale-2

Walton & Cohen (2017)

Topic: Campus Engagement & Belonging - Sense of Belonging

Description of Measure:

Answer the following questions about your feelings about what UCSC is like for you right now. Sometimes people feel at home at UCSC, sometimes they don’t, and sometimes they feel more or less middle of the road. Indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with each statement using the scales below. Please circle your response and use the whole range of each scale.

Instructions and Response Options:

For questions 1-19, students will answer on a scale of: 1-Strongly disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-Moderately disagree, 4-neutral, 5-Moderately agree, 6-Agree, 7-Strongly agree

Items: 

1. Right now, I feel like people at UCSC accept me.
2. Right now, I feel like an outsider at UCSC.
3. Right now, I feel like other people understand more than I do about what is going on at UCSC.
4. Right now, I feel like I think in the same way as do people who do well at UCSC.
5. Right now, I feel like it is a mystery to me how UCSC works.
6. Right now, I feel alienated from UCSC.
7. Right now, I feel like I fit in well at UCSC.
8. Right now, I feel like I am similar to the kind of people who succeed at UCSC.
9. Right now, I feel like I know what kind of people UCSC professors are.
10. Right now, I feel like I get along well with people at UCSC.
11. Right now, I feel like I belong at UCSC.
12. Right now, I feel like I know how to do well at UCSC.
13. Right now, I feel like I do not know what I would need to do to make a UCSC professor like me.
14. Right now, I feel comfortable at UCSC.
15. Right now, I feel like people at UCSC like me.
16. If I wanted to, right now I feel like I could potentially do very well at UCSC.
17. Right now, I feel like people at UCSC are a lot like me.
18. Right now, I feel confident that I have the ability to do well at UCSC.
19. Right now, I feel that I have less ability than others.
20. Right now, how much potential, compared with other UCSC students, do you feel you have to succeed at UCSC?

Note: Marking 50% means you believe you have more potential than half of UCSC students, and less potential than half. Marking 90% means you believe you have more potential than almost all UCSC students. Marking 10% means you believe you have less potential than almost all UCSC students.

Citation: 

Walton, G. M., & Cohen, G. L. (2007). A question of belonging: race, social fit, and achievement. Journal of personality and social psychology, 92(1), 82. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.92.1.82 Links to an external site.. 

Link to PDF: https://www.goshen.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/WaltonCohen2007.pdf Links to an external site.

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