Accumulating evidence of the impact of social and emotional learning (SEL) on student well-being as well as academic performance has led to an increased interest in understanding and measuring SEL in students. However, most existing measures have been developed in English and there is a paucity of culturally relevant measures in other languages. In this study, we present a short, culturally sensitive 8-item scale in Hindi entitled the Social and Emotional Learning and Orientation Scale (SELOS). Factor structure of SELOS was established through exploratory (N=2844; M_age=14.65 years) and confirmatory factor analysis (N=1508; M_age=14.50 years) with responses from 4352 Hindi-speaking students in India. The scale demonstrated a two-factor structure, with good reliability, discriminant validity and partial measurement invariance across gender. These results provide encouraging evidence for conducting culturally sensitive studies of SEL in India and in other Hindi-speaking parts of the world.

越来越多的证据表明社交和情感学习 (SEL) 对学生的幸福感和学业成绩产生了影响，这导致人们对理解和衡量学生的 SEL 产生了越来越大的兴趣。然而，大多数现有措施都是用英语制定的，而其他语言的文化相关措施却很少。在这项研究中，我们提出了一个简短的、文化敏感的 8 项印地语量表，题为社会和情感学习与定向量表 (SELOS)。通过探索性（N =2844； Mage =14.65岁）和验证性因子分析（_N = 1508；_Mage=14.50 年），来自印度 4352 名讲印地语的学生的回复。该量表采用双因素结构，具有良好的信度、区分效度和跨性别的部分测量不变性。这些结果为在印度和世界其他印地语地区开展对 SEL 的文化敏感研究提供了令人鼓舞的证据。