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ERIC Number: EJ921348
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Oct
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0268-1153
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School Well-Being in Grades 4-12
Konu, Anne I.; Lintonen, T. P.
Health Education Research, v21 n5 p633-642 Oct 2006
The World Health Organization has encouraged a whole-school approach when trying to promote mental health and well-being in schools. The Internet-based School Well-being Profile aims to be a holistic well-being evaluation tool for schools. Well-being is divided into four categories: "school conditions", "social relationships", "means for self-fulfillment" and "health status". The questionnaires for the School Well-being Profile were developed for school personnel and for pupils at three levels: primary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools. The present data consisted of the responses from 8285 participants from primary, lower and upper secondary school pupils in the school year 2004-05 in Finland. School well-being was compared between gender, school levels and grades. Pupils in primary school experienced school conditions, social relationships and means for self-fulfillment to be better than pupils in secondary schools. When comparing gender and grades, the main finding was that girls and younger students within each school level rated school well-being more positively, except the fact that boys had fewer symptoms than girls did. The aim of the School Well-being Profile is to provide a well-being evaluation tool for schools to use. The idea is that schools evaluate their well-being, make positive changes and perform the evaluation again to see if progress has been made. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland
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