Sense of Safety

Teacher and School

1. I feel safe on my way to school in the morning.
2. I feel safe on the school grounds before school starts.
3. I feel safe in my class at school.
4. I feel safe at lunch in school.
5. I feel safe in gym class at school.
6. I feel safe after school before I go home.
7. I feel safe on my way home from school.
8. I feel safe at the park closest to my house.
9. I feel safe outside of my house.
10. I feel safe playing on my block.
11. I feel safe walking around my neighborhood.
 
These items measure feelings of safety at home‚ in or on the way to school‚ and in the neighborhood.
 
This tool touches on the following keywords:
·         School and Academics
·         Personal Attitudes and Beliefs
 
This instrument can be found on page 129 of Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes‚ Behaviors‚ and Influences Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools‚ available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/YV_Compendium.pdf
Students in grades 1-8.
 
Point values are assigned as indicated above. Scores are based on the mean item response of non-missing items up to a threshold of 2/3 of the items being non-missing. Six (6) items must be present to calculate a score. A higher score indicates a greater sense of feeling safe.
Never=0‚ Sometimes=1‚ Always=2
 

Henry D. Initial report of the Pilot Study for the Evaluation of the SAFE TO LEARN Demonstration Project. Technical Report‚ Child Health Data Lab. Chicago: Children’s Memorial Hospital‚ 2000.

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mohammad looti (2026). Sense of Safety. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES. Retrieved from https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/sense-of-safety/

mohammad looti. "Sense of Safety." PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES, 21 Apr. 2026, https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/sense-of-safety/.

mohammad looti. "Sense of Safety." PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES, 2026. https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/sense-of-safety/.

mohammad looti (2026) 'Sense of Safety', PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES. Available at: https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/sense-of-safety/.

[1] mohammad looti, "Sense of Safety," PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES, vol. X, no. Y, ص Z-Z, April, 2026.

mohammad looti. Sense of Safety. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES. 2026;vol(issue):pages.

Related terms:

  1. Sense of Safety
  2. Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC)
  3. Sense of Community Index (SCI)
  4. School Safety Problems
  5. Revised Community Organization Sense of Community Scale (COSCS-R)
  6. Family Sense of Coherence (FSOC)
  7. Multidimensional sense of humor scale (MSHS)
  8. Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC)
  9. Sense of Belonging—Chicago Youth Development Study
  10. Sense of Community Index 2 (SCI-2)
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