A multilevel analysis of life satisfaction among secondary school students: Do school-level factors matter?

Cho, Esther Yin-Nei

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.05.002

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“…According to the understandings of livability theory, if adolescents live in provinces with higher levels of social development (as indicated by the HDI), they will have higher levels of present-and future-oriented SWB. Consistent with previous research results (Cho, 2019;Klocke et al, 2014;Lee & Yoo, 2015;Main et al, 2019;Newland et al, 2019), GDP per capita was not significantly associated with adolescents' present-and future-oriented SWB. These results have two implications.…”

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“…Previous studies have examined the effects of regional education‐ and health‐related factors in explaining adolescents' present‐oriented SWB. However, education expenditure as a percentage of GDP (Cho, 2019; Lee & Yoo, 2015) has not been found to be significantly related to adolescents' present‐oriented SWB, nor has health expenditure as a percentage of GDP (Cho, 2019) or child mortality rates under 5‐years‐old (Lee & Yoo, 2015). This may be because these indicators do not directly reflect the health care and educational levels of a region.…”

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Family socioeconomic status and provincial‐level economic, educational, and health‐related factors as predictors of present‐ and future‐oriented subjective wellbeing in junior high school students in China

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Journal of Adolescence

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Introduction: Previous studies have examined family socioeconomic status (SES) and regional-level factors that predict adolescents' present subjective wellbeing (SWB). However, as adolescents' SWB tends to be future-oriented, this study examined the relationships between family SES and provincial-level economic, educational, and health-related factors and adolescents' present-and future-oriented SWB. Methods: The sample includes 17,341 12-to 17-year-old adolescents (M age = 13.86; SD age = 0.79; 9056 girls and 8285 boys) from 31 different provinces of China. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze the data at two levels. Results: The findings showed that family SES (Level-1) was positively correlated with present life satisfaction (LS-P), present positive affect (PPA), hopeful future expectations (HFE), and positive affect toward future life (FPA), but negatively correlated with present negative affect (PNA) and negative affect toward future life (FNA). Provincial-level (Level-2) years of education per capita, average life expectancy, and human development index (HDI) were positively associated with LS-P, PPA, FPA, and HFE, and negatively associated with PNA; only average life expectancy was negatively associated with FNA. There was no association between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and SWB. Simple slope analyses demonstrated that, in provinces with relatively less or short years of education per capita, GDP per capita, average life expectancy, or HDI, the correlations between family SES and present-and future-oriented negative affect were stronger. Conclusions: The present-and future-oriented SWB of adolescents from families with low SES in underdeveloped areas was relatively poor. More psychologically focused education activities are needed for these adolescents.

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Family socioeconomic status and provincial‐level economic, educational, and health‐related factors as predictors of present‐ and future‐oriented subjective wellbeing in junior high school students in China

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Journal of Adolescence

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“…The present study showed that school size was positively associated with QoL. One previous study reported that school size was slightly negatively associated with life satisfaction [ 78 ]. On the other hand, review studies [ 79 ] have indicated little association between objective physical environment (e.g.…”

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The association of social capital with depression and quality of life in school-aged children

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Social capital is an important factor that affects mental health. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between social capital and depression and between social capital and quality of life (QoL) in children in elementary and junior high school and to examine how this relationship differs in relevant patterns at both the individual- and school-level. The study was conducted in all elementary and junior high schools in a single municipality; the subjects consisted of 3,722 elementary school and 3,987 junior high school students (aged from 9 to 15). A multilevel linear mixed effect model analysis revealed that all three subscales of social capital were associated with depression and QoL at the individual-level: The school social capital at the individual-level showed the strongest association with depression and QoL. We also found that some of social capital at the school-level was associated with depression and QoL. An interactive effect was observed between educational stage (elementary and junior high) and some of social capital subscales. Specifically, the inverse association between school social capital and depression was stronger among the junior high students, while the positive association between school and neighborhood social capital and QoL was stronger among the elementary students. These interactions suggest that social capital impacts depression and QoL differently in elementary and junior high students. These findings suggest that the degree of association of social capital domains differs in mental health among the educational stage.

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“…Today, life satisfaction is one of the issues that have attracted the attention of researchers, psychologists and sociologists and there are many studies on this topic (Mullarkey, et al, 2021). Life satisfaction as a mental and unique concept and an important indicator of mental health is a very important part of the sense of well-being and is based on a mental and personal judgment (CHO, 2019). Life satisfaction means the individual's general assessment and attitude toward the whole life and indicates how the basic needs of the individual and his/her goals have been fulfilled in life (Henriques, Marcenaro-Gutierrez & Lopez-Agudo, 2020).…”

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Relationship between Communication Skills with Life Satisfaction among Students Studying at Islamic Azad University of Tehran: A Case Study

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Taheri

Mohammad

2021

Iranian Journal of Educational Sociology

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The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between communication skills and life satisfaction among students of Islamic Azad University. Methodology: This was an applied study in terms of its aim and a descriptive correlational in terms of its methodology. The research population included 190000 students studying at Islamic Azad University of Tehran in the academic year 2019-2020. The sample size was estimated to be 384 people selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. Data were collected by Communication Skills Test-Revise (Queendom, 2004) and Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (Huebner, 1991) and analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regressions in SPSS ver.19 software. Findings: The results showed that communication skills and all dimensions including the ability to receive and send message, emotional control, listening skill, insight into the communication process and communication with determination had a positive and significant relationship with life satisfaction in students (P<0.01). Communication skills significantly could predict 33.6% and among the dimensions of communication skills, three dimensions of listening skill, communication with determination and the ability to receive and send message together could predict 60.8% of life satisfaction changes in students (P<0.001), but the dimensions of emotional control and insight into the communication process did not enter the equation due to the lack of a significant increase in the amount of prediction (P>0.05). Conclusion:According to the results of the present study, communication skills with life satisfaction have a significant relationship and predicted a significant portion of it. Therefore, planning to improve the satisfaction of life in students is essential by increasing their communication skills through workshops.

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A multilevel analysis of life satisfaction among secondary school students: Do school-level factors matter?

Cited by 14 publications

References 60 publications

Family socioeconomic status and provincial‐level economic, educational, and health‐related factors as predictors of present‐ and future‐oriented subjective wellbeing in junior high school students in China

Family socioeconomic status and provincial‐level economic, educational, and health‐related factors as predictors of present‐ and future‐oriented subjective wellbeing in junior high school students in China

The association of social capital with depression and quality of life in school-aged children

Relationship between Communication Skills with Life Satisfaction among Students Studying at Islamic Azad University of Tehran: A Case Study

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