Cross-National Time Trends in Adolescent Mental Well-Being From 2002 to 2018 and the Explanatory Role of Schoolwork Pressure

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989100:27240/20:10246272

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(20)30079-3/fulltext" target="_blank" >https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(20)30079-3/fulltext</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.02.010" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.02.010</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cross-National Time Trends in Adolescent Mental Well-Being From 2002 to 2018 and the Explanatory Role of Schoolwork Pressure

Original language description

Purpose: Previous research has shown inconsistent time trends in adolescent mental well-being, but potential underlying mechanisms for such trends are yet to be examined. This study investigates cross-national time trends in adolescent mental well-being (psychosomatic health complaints and life satisfaction) in mainly European countries and the extent to which time trends in schoolwork pressure explain these trends. Methods: Data from 915,054 adolescents from 36 countries (50.8% girls; mean(age) = 13.54; standard deviation(age) = 1.63) across five Health Behaviour in School-aged Children surveys (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018) were included in the analyses. Hierarchical multilevel models estimated cross-national trends in adolescent mental well-being and schoolwork pressure. We also tested whether schoolwork pressure could explain these trends in mental well-being. Results: A small linear increase over time in psychosomatic complaints and schoolwork pressure was found. No change in life satisfaction emerged. Furthermore, there was large cross-country variation in the prevalence of, and trends over time in, adolescent mental well-being and schoolwork pressure. Overall, declines in well-being and increases in schoolwork pressure were apparent in the higher income countries. Across countries, the small increase in schoolwork pressure over time partly explained the decline in psychosomatic health complaints. Conclusions: Our findings do not provide evidence for substantial declines in mental well-being among adolescents. Yet, the small declines in mental well-being and increases in schoolwork pressure appear to be quite consistent across high-income countries. This calls for the attention of public health professionals and policy-makers. Country differences in trends in both adolescent mental well-being outcomes and schoolwork pressure were considerable, which requires caution regarding the cross-national generalization of national trends. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_025%2F0007294" target="_blank" >EF16_025/0007294: Effective Use of Social Research Studies for Practice</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

ISSN

1054-139X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

66

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6 / Supplement S

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

"S50"-"S58"

UT code for WoS article

000538880700009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85084791460