Subjective well-being in adolescence and teacher connectedness: A health asset analysis

García-Moya, Irene; Brooks, Fiona; Morgan, Antony; Moreno, Carmen

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“…(26) Constructive and supportive relationships with adults -both teachers and parents -have been strongly and independently associated with contributing a protective health effect for young people. (27)(28)(29) The findings presented here suggest that GPs could also constitute an important additional element in the set of constructive adult relationships around the adolescent. The findings also corroborates previous work suggesting that particular skills are required to work with your people, including emphasise on confidentiality, enabling young people to feel their concerns are heard and seeing young people without a parent.…”

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confidence: 81%

Experience of Primary Care Services Among Early Adolescents in England and Association With Health Outcomes

Yassaee¹,

Hargreaves²,

Chester

et al. 2017

Journal of Adolescent Health

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(250 words):Purpose: To investigate adolescents' (11-15 years) experience of their general practitioner (GP), whether poor reported GP experience was associated with worse physical and mental health measures and whether poor previous GP experience was linked to lower utilisation of these services. Methods:We used logistic regression to analyse data from the 2014 Health Behaviour in Schoolaged Children study. Four aspects of recent care experience were studied: feeling at ease, feeling treated with respect, satisfaction with doctor's explanation, and feeling able to discuss personal matters. Five dichotomised measures of health status were used: ever self-harmed; fair or poor selfreported health; frequent (at least weekly) low mood, sleeping problems or headaches.Results: 4149/5335 students reported having visiting their GP within the past year. Of these 91.8% felt treated with respect, 78.7% felt at ease, 85.7% were satisfied with explanation and 53.9% felt able to discuss personal matters. After adjusting for ethnicity, age, gender and family affluence score, poor experience on any indicator was strongly associated with increased risk of self-harm (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) range 2.01-2·70 all p<0·001); feeling low (1·53-2·11, all p<0·001) and sleeping problems (AOR range 1.49-1.91, all p<=0.001). Poor experience on all indicators, except discussing personal matters, was associated with worse self-reported health. Conclusions:Nearly half of this large, national study of adolescents did not feel able to discuss personal matters with their doctor. There was a consistent, strong association between reported lack of good GP experience and poor health measures. Implications and Contribution (50 words):These findings show a strong association between poor healthcare experience and poor health.Adolescents with the greatest need report poorer experience of care, which may further exacerbate their health problems. Further research is needed to investigate the extent to which higher quality services can address these disparities and improve outcomes. Main manuscript:Adolescence is a key stage of the life course when lifelong health behaviours and attitudes to health care can be established.(1) Meeting the distinct healthcare needs of this age group is an important public health investment. (2) Unmet healthcare need in adolescence is linked to a range of increased health risks, and longitudinal data show that it is an independent predictor of poor mental and physical health outcomes as well as on-going unmet healthcare need in adulthood. (3) Compared to many other countries, English adolescents have potentially good access to general practice services (English GPs are similar to family physicians, having responsibility for primary care needs of their patients), as the English National Health Service (NHS) offers comprehensive health services, free at the point of use. However, concerns have been raised about the quality of NHS care provided for adolescents and in particular about the responsiveness of services t...

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confidence: 81%

Experience of Primary Care Services Among Early Adolescents in England and Association With Health Outcomes

Yassaee¹,

Hargreaves²,

Chester

et al. 2017

Journal of Adolescent Health

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“…One key component of school connectedness is teacher connectedness, which according to this review was present in most conceptualisations of school connectedness and has started to be studied separately as an important dimension in its own right (e.g. Forrest et al 2013;García-Moya et al 2015). Another line of future research should be the examination of the potential impact of the different levels at which items around this content have been formulated.…”

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“…García-Moya et al 2015). School connectedness and student-teacher relationships have also been considered to be fundamental for a successful transition to secondary education (Lester, Waters, and Cross 2013;Waters, Lester, and Cross 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

The conceptualisation of school and teacher connectedness in adolescent research: a scoping review of literature

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The aim of this scoping review was to map and summarise research relating to school and teacher connectedness, in order to increase current understanding of the ways these terms have been conceptualised in adolescent research. Specifically, this scoping review focuses on the analysis of the actual definitions used and the ways in which school connectedness and teacher connectedness are operationalised in existing measures. Using the terms connectedness, teacher and school as keywords, we searched SCOPUS, Web of Science, ERIC, the Cochrane Library and the EPPI Centre Database of Education Research for relevant peer-review articles published in English from 1990 to 2016. 350 papers were selected for the review. Many studies failed to provide a definition of school or teacher connectedness and there were some differences in the way these constructs were operationalised in the main measures. Future research should be thorough in the definition of these constructs, and ensure consistency between the definition used and the operationalisation of the connectedness construct in the selected measure. Unpacking the global concept of school connectedness and examining the role of its different components (global feelings towards school, teacher connectedness, relationships with classmates, etc.) separately may also contribute to building a more coherent body of evidence in this area. Reflecting on the place of school and teacher connectedness in the broader context of the literature on school climate and bridging distances between the research on school connectedness and that on related constructs is another necessary step to move this field forward.

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“…Negative social behaviors, such as bullying, are less common (Inchley et al 2016) and appear to be less accepted (Ciby and Raya 2015; Hofstede et al 2010) in countries with feminine cultures, compared to masculine cultures. Importantly, the characteristics of the school climate on which countries with feminine cultures score typically higher (i.e., high teacher and classmate support), have been consistently associated with better mental health outcomes in adolescents (García-Moya et al 2015; Ottova et al 2012). In contrast, the focus on achievement and competition in masculine cultures may increase school-related stress in some adolescents.…”

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The Happiest Kids on Earth. Gender Equality and Adolescent Life Satisfaction in Europe and North America

Looze

Huijts

Stevens

et al. 2017

J Youth Adolescence

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Cross-national differences in adolescent life satisfaction in Europe and North America are consistent, but remain poorly understood. While previous studies have predominantly focused on the explanatory role of economic factors, such as national wealth and income equality, they revealed weak associations, at most. This study examines whether societal gender equality can explain the observed cross-national variability in adolescent life satisfaction. Based on the assumption that gender equality fosters a supportive social context, for example within families through a more equal involvement of fathers and mothers in child care tasks, adolescent life satisfaction was expected to be higher in more gender-equal countries. To test this hypothesis, national-level data of gender equality (i.e., women’s share in political participation, decision making power, economic participation and command over resources) were linked to data from 175,470 adolescents aged 11–16 years old (M age = 13.6, SD = 1.64, 52% girls) from 34 European and North American countries involved in the 2009/10 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Results of linear multilevel regression analyses indicate that adolescents in countries with relatively high levels of gender equality report higher life satisfaction than their peers in countries with lower levels of gender equality. The association between gender equality and adolescent life satisfaction remained significant after controlling for national wealth and income equality. It was equally strong for boys and girls. Moreover, the association between gender equality and life satisfaction was explained by social support in the family, peer and school context. This analysis suggests that gender equality fosters social support among members of a society, which in turn contributes to adolescent life satisfaction. Thus, promoting gender equality is likely to benefit all members of a society; not just by giving equal rights to women and girls, but also by fostering a supportive social climate for all.

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Subjective well-being in adolescence and teacher connectedness: A health asset analysis

Cited by 62 publications

References 44 publications

Experience of Primary Care Services Among Early Adolescents in England and Association With Health Outcomes

Experience of Primary Care Services Among Early Adolescents in England and Association With Health Outcomes

The conceptualisation of school and teacher connectedness in adolescent research: a scoping review of literature

The Happiest Kids on Earth. Gender Equality and Adolescent Life Satisfaction in Europe and North America

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