THE BACK BURNER: EDUCATIONAL EQUITY, RESILIENCE, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AS A PREDICTOR ON PROMOTING STUDENTS MENTAL HEALTH

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of the current research was to determine the effect of equitable education, resilience, and psychological well-being on promoting student's mental health. The researchers eagerly explored everyday situations happening in male elementary schools of district Lahore, focusing on pandemic situations with zeal and zest. Methodology: The researchers structured causal-comparative research focusing positivist paradigm on a sample of randomly selected 980 respondents enrolled in male elementary schools of district Lahore of Punjab-Pakistan. The authors collected the data after administering Scott (2006) Educational Equity and school reforms Scale, Prince-Embury (2013) Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents, Ryff’s (1989) Psychological Well-beings Scale, and Lukat et al. (2016) Positive Mental Health Scale. After ensuring ethical considerations, the researchers run regression technique, one way; ANOVA and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) on the participants data. Main findings: The findings revealed that educational equity effect 81%, resilience 87.10%, and psychological well-being affect 66.60% in promoting students mental health. Educational equity, resilience, and psychological well-being have the same effect on 6th, 7th, and 8th grades students in promoting their mental health. Further a significant strong association between educational equity and mental health (r = .900**, n = 985, p < .05), resilience and mental health (r = .946**, n = 984, p < .05) and psychological well-beings and students mental health (r = .815**, n = 985, p < .05). Applications of this study: The results of the research will be applicable for headteachers, teachers, and parents to get aware of the worth of equitable education, resilience, and psychological well-being that play an enormous role in promoting students mental health. The debatable constructs of the current research will provide capable stakeholders to know the entire magnitude of mental health that drastically instigate and enhance student's vigour, attentiveness, dependability, intellectual ability, and optimism. Novelty/originality of this study: It is evident from the literature that less work is conducted inequitable education, resilience, and psychological well-being that play a massive role in promoting students mental health. In the case of Pakistan, the situation is very alarming and the meager because none of the researchers took initiative to framed research on these burning constructs. However, this research will opened new dimensions for the future researchers that will raise their intentions to explore the effect of primary, secondary, higher secondary, and tertiary level students equitable education, resilience, and psychological well-being on their mental health.

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MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING: DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH IN PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION

10.21506/j.ponte.2018.2.2 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 74 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Olga Lopukhova

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Well Being

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The Actual Condition of Violence Victimization Experience of Teachers and Relationship with Mental Health, Psychological Well-Being

Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction ◽

10.22251/jlcci.2019.19.2.879 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 879-896

Author(s):

SooKyoung Lee

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Actual Condition ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Violence Victimization ◽

Victimization Experience

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Mental Health and Psychological Well-Being Among Management Students and Educators

Journal of Management Education ◽

10.1177/1052562920978252 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 3-18

Author(s):

Marissa S. Edwards ◽

Angela J. Martin ◽

Neal M. Ashkanasy

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Management Students

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Mental Health and Well-Being Among Individuals With a Sensory Loss During COVID-19 Lockdown Measures

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igab046.1580 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 409-409

Author(s):

Natascha Merten ◽

Amy Schultz ◽

Matthew Walsh ◽

Suzanne van Landingham ◽

Paul Peppard ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Hearing Impairment ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Well Being ◽

Vision Impairment ◽

Sensory Loss ◽

Future Research ◽

Sensory Impairment ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Health And Well Being

Abstract Hearing and vision impairment are highly prevalent chronic conditions and are associated with poorer mental health and well-being. Mental health problems may be exacerbated by COVID-19-related lockdown measures and limitations of in-person contacts may affect those with sensory impairments more severely. We aimed to determine whether hearing and/or visual impairment were associated with worse mental health and psychological well-being during lockdown measures in Spring/Summer 2020 in Wisconsin. We included 1341 (64% women, aged 20-92 years) Survey of the Health of Wisconsin participants of a COVID-19 survey (May-June, 2020). We assessed self-reported current mental health and psychological well-being and vision and hearing impairment. Logistic regression models with vision and hearing impairments as determinants and multiple mental health and well-being outcomes were used and adjusted for age, gender, race, education, heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes. In preliminary analyses, we found associations of vision impairment with increased odds of generalized anxiety disorder (odds ratio=2.10; 95% confidence interval=1.32-3.29) and depression (2.57; 1.58-4.11). Individuals with a vision impairment were more likely to be taking medication for depression (1.75; 1.13-2.68), report being lonely (1.65; 1.00-2.64) and report hopelessness (1.45; 1.01-2.08). Individuals with a hearing impairment were more likely to be taking depression medications (1.72; 1.07-2.73) and to report being lonely (1.80; 1.05-2.98). Sensory impairment was not associated with stress levels or sense of purpose in life. Individuals with sensory impairment may represent a particularly vulnerable population during the COVID-19 pandemic. Future research should determine underlying reasons and interventions to mitigate this populations’ disadvantages.

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Depression and Psychological Well-Being as Distinct Constructs: Mutually Exclusive Associations With Biomarker

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.808 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 251-251

Author(s):

Kheng Siang Ted Ng ◽

Shu Cheng Wong ◽

Glenn Wong ◽

Ee Heok Kua ◽

Anis Larbi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Older Adults ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Factor Score ◽

Well Being ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

The Other ◽

Factor Scores ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Wide Range

Abstract Despite increasing emphasis on assessing the mental health of older adults, there has been inconclusive evidence on whether depression and psychological well-being (PWB) are fundamentally distinct constructs or representations of the opposite ends of the mental health spectrum. To instantiate either hypothesis, investigation of the associations between mental health scales and biomarkers have been proposed. First, we assessed depressive symptoms and PWB in community-dwelling older adults (N=59, mean age=67) using the Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) and Ryff’s Scale of PWB (comprising six sub-scales). We measured a wide range of immune markers employing ELISA and flow cytometry. Subsequently, we used principal component analysis (PCA) to aggregate and derived biomarker factor scores. Lastly, multiple linear regressions were performed to examine the associations between the scales and the derived biomarker factor scores, controlling for covariates. PCA extracted six biomarker factors. Biomarker factor score 1 was significantly associated with PWB (β=-0.029, p=0.035) and the PWB sub-scale, self-acceptance (β=-0.089, p=0.047), while biomarker factor score 4 was significantly associated with the PWB sub-scale, purpose in life (β=-0.087, p=0.025). On the other hand, biomarker factor 6 was significantly associated with SDS (β=-0.070, p=0.008). There were mutually- exclusive associations between the scales with biomarker factor scores, supporting the hypothesis of distinct constructs. Our findings expanded the biomarkers of depression and PWB, deepening understanding of the biological underpinnings of depressive symptoms and PWB. These findings have implications in field work, since researchers could not infer one construct from the other, the examination of both constructs are essential.

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