Positive Family Environment, General Distress, Subjective Well-Being, and Academic Engagement among High School Students Before and During the COVID-19 Outbreak

2021 ◽  
pp. 014303432110664
Author(s):  
José Concepción Gaxiola Romero ◽  
Antonio Pineda Domínguez ◽  
Eunice Gaxiola Villa ◽  
Sandybell González Lugo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
School Students ◽  
General Distress ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the family dynamics of most people worldwide as well as the mode in which students take classes. The impact of such changes on students’ well-being, academic engagement, and general distress remains unknown. Therefore, this study aims to test the structural relations among positive family environment (a measure of Positive Home-Based Parent Involvement [HBI]), subjective well-being (SWB), general distress, and academic engagement, focusing on Mexican high school students. A longitudinal study was conducted covering two time points: before (T1) and during (T2) the COVID-19 outbreak. A sample of 502 students answered questionnaires in T1 whereas 111 did so in T2. Analyses were conducted using Mplus software. Principal results showed that the positive and significant association between positive family environment and SWB did not substantially change from T1 to T2, whereas the relation between positive family environment and academic engagement became stronger. Data revealed that a positive family environment can play an important role in promoting academic engagement among adolescent students despite the risks brought about by sanitary lockdowns and the increase of family interactions. Results are discussed highlighting the importance of positive family environments and HBI on academic outcomes for Mexican high school students.

High School Students' Part-Time Employment and its Relationship to Academic Engagement and Psychological Well-Being

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Margaret Garvin ◽  
Andrew J. Martin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
School Students ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Behavioural Aspects

The present study investigates the relationship between school students' part-time employment and their academic engagement and psychological well-being. High school students completed a questionnaire assessing the quantity and quality of their employment, cognitive and behavioural aspects of their academic engagement, and levels of stress they were experiencing. Employed students reported significantly greater stress in terms of less ability to cope with day-to-day events than did students who were not employed. Employed students also reported comparatively lower levels of attentiveness and cognitive engagement at school than students who were not employed. Gender effects also emerged: boys appeared to benefit more from employment than girls both in terms of lower levels of depression and higher self-concept when work conditions were positive. Implications for both individual counselling and whole-school welfare are discussed.

scholarly journals The Impact of School Climate on Well-Being Experience and School Engagement: A Study With High-School Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Lombardi ◽  
Daniela Traficante ◽  
Roberta Bettoni ◽  
Ilaria Offredi ◽  
Marisa Giorgetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Climate ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Conditions of the Implementation of Selected Early Prevention Behaviours by High School Students from Radom

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Jolanta Mogiła-Lisowska ◽  
Beata Bukowska
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Students ◽  
Minimal Impact ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Family

AbstractThe specific type of human activities that aim to maintain full health by maintaining biological, psychological and social comfort indicate the need to adopt a holistic perspective in any analysis of determinants of pro-health behaviour. When analysing the aetiology of somatic diseases, it is important to take into account biological and mental well-being as well as the connections between needs, interests and lifestyle decisions and their consequences. One of the measures used to reduce the risk of a progressive lack of immunity to non-infectious diseases is prevention, understood as actions aimed at preventing diseases or other adverse health phenomena by controlling their causes and risk factors. An important component of prevention programmes is preventing the occurrence of negative social behaviour patterns that contribute to the increased risk of diseases. Three basic components of a healthy lifestyle – regular physical activity, proper nutrition and sufficient rest and relaxation (stress management) – justify the importance of practising healthy habits from an early age. The role of promoting pro-health behaviours among children and adolescents is of particular importance in the context of increasingly sedentary lifestyles, obesity and weight problems.The aim of this study is to analyse the determinants of physical activity and a balanced diet in the lifestyle of high school students in Radom aged 16-19. The study was conducted in 2013 at VII Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński High School in Radom and involved 140 students. The results of the study indicate that only one-third of respondents fulfilled the requirements for minimal physical activity for their subjective and objective needs of this phase of ontogenetic development, such as being in the company of their peers, spending time in open air and taking care of their physical fitness. Unfortunately, the majority of the parents of the surveyed high school students, who were at the time about 40 years old, did not engage in any systematic physical activity. In other words, the family environment of the studied young people did not promote patterns of physical activity. Similarly, healthy nutrition in the study group was lacking. Both the boys and girls ate around five meals a day, but many respondents snacked between meals on sweets and crisps. The majority of students drank water. The vast majority of them ate their meals at home, ensuring that their meals were freshly prepared and not pre-cooked.Although school children prefer to spend time with their peers, the family is still a point of reference in terms of values and ways of spending free time. The authors of this paper must take into account the minimal impact of the family on choices regarding physical activity. The studied group of high school students demonstrated a lack of preventive care for their health and did not have a well-established systematic approach to physical activity and healthy eating habits.

scholarly journals Psychological well-being: The impact of student perceptions on guidance and counseling teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Luky Kurniawan ◽  
Dhanang Suwidagdho ◽  
Ruly Ningsih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Senior High School Students ◽  
The Ideal

The increasingly complex problem becomes a challenge for guidance and counselling teachers or counsellors as professional helpers. The ideal guidance and counselling teacher or counsellor figure is expected to answer the challenges of the current millennial era. The objectives to be achieved in this study are to obtain an overview of students' perceptions of the ideal guidance and counselling teacher and to find out the relationship between student perceptions and the level of welfare of Senior High School students. The research subjects of Senior High School students in Yogyakarta. The object of this research is, Perceptions of students, Figure of ideal guidance and counselling teachers, The level of well-being of students at Senior High School students in Yogyakarta. The method used for data collection using a questionnaire. The results showed a significant relationship between student perceptions of guidance and counselling teacher figures with the level of psychological well-being in schools. The counsellor's ability to understand himself and see a problem from the point of view of others will have an impact on students' perceptions of the counsellor. These results imply the importance of guidance and counselling teachers to continue to develop professionalism in schools so that students can be served well, and have an impact on the psychological well-being of students.

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