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Adolescents’ Mental Health at School: The Mediating Role of Life Satisfaction

In this study, we further developed prior research on risk and protective factors in adolescents’ mental health. More specifically, we used structural equation modelling to assess whether relationships at school with teachers and peers, and life satisfaction predicted mental health in a large sample...

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Autores principales: Cavioni, Valeria, Grazzani, Ilaria, Ornaghi, Veronica, Agliati, Alessia, Pepe, Alessandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8416350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484083
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720628
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author Cavioni, Valeria
Grazzani, Ilaria
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Pepe, Alessandro
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description In this study, we further developed prior research on risk and protective factors in adolescents’ mental health. More specifically, we used structural equation modelling to assess whether relationships at school with teachers and peers, and life satisfaction predicted mental health in a large sample of adolescents, while also testing for age and gender invariance. The sample comprised 3,895 adolescents (M(age) = 16.7, SD = 1.5, 41.3% girls), who completed self-report instruments assessing their perceived life satisfaction, student-teacher relationship, school connectedness and mental health. Overall, the results suggested that life satisfaction acted as a mediator between adolescents’ positive school relations and their mental health. Outcomes were invariant across genders, while quality of school relations and mental health declined with age. Limitations of the study and futures lines in mental health research among adolescents are briefly discussed.
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spelling pubmed-84163502021-09-04 Adolescents’ Mental Health at School: The Mediating Role of Life Satisfaction Cavioni, Valeria Grazzani, Ilaria Ornaghi, Veronica Agliati, Alessia Pepe, Alessandro Front Psychol Psychology In this study, we further developed prior research on risk and protective factors in adolescents’ mental health. More specifically, we used structural equation modelling to assess whether relationships at school with teachers and peers, and life satisfaction predicted mental health in a large sample of adolescents, while also testing for age and gender invariance. The sample comprised 3,895 adolescents (M(age) = 16.7, SD = 1.5, 41.3% girls), who completed self-report instruments assessing their perceived life satisfaction, student-teacher relationship, school connectedness and mental health. Overall, the results suggested that life satisfaction acted as a mediator between adolescents’ positive school relations and their mental health. Outcomes were invariant across genders, while quality of school relations and mental health declined with age. Limitations of the study and futures lines in mental health research among adolescents are briefly discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8416350/ /pubmed/34484083 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720628 Text en Copyright © 2021 Cavioni, Grazzani, Ornaghi, Agliati and Pepe. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Adolescents’ Mental Health at School: The Mediating Role of Life Satisfaction
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8416350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484083
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720628
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