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Title: | School environment as a mediating variable between family support and social wellbeing in high school students |
Authors: | Flores-Verduzco, Guadalupe Refugio Fraijo-Sing, Blanca Silvia Tapia-Fonllem, Cesar Octavio |
Keywords: | Well-being -- Social aspects School environment -- Psychological aspects School environment -- Social aspects Bullying in schools -- Research |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Centre for Resilience & Socio-Emotional Health |
Citation: | Flores-Verduzco, G. R., Fraijo-Sing, B. S., & Tapia-Fonllem, C. O. (2020). School environment as a mediating variable between family support and social wellbeing in high school students. International Journal of Emotional Education, 12(2), 26-40. |
Abstract: | Educational institutions are crucial environments to promote students’ wellbeing. This introduces major challenges into the processes of executing and evaluating programmes such as the ones focused on achieving bullying-free schools. The concept of social wellbeing that is used throughout the present paper is associated to the subjective sense of action in the social construction and understanding of reality. The primary objective was to examine the relationship between Family Support (FS) and Social Wellbeing (SW) of high school education students in the state of Sonora, Mexico, as well as the effect of potential mediation of the School Environment (SE). This research was carried out with a cross-sectional sample of 265 teenagers (average age = 16 years old, SD=1.35), who responded to a self-report scale developed for this research study. The structural model has shown a high predictive power of SE as a mediating variable between FS and SW. Furthermore, both immediate contexts of students, i.e. family and school, were found to be relevant to their emotions and SW, which translates into a lower probability of being a victim of bullying. Therefore, we discuss a concept of SW seen from a perspective related to emotions, where material, economic, and/or monetary factors are not a priority. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/65121 |
ISSN: | 20737629 |
Appears in Collections: | IJEE, Volume 12 Issue 2 IJEE, Volume 12 Issue 2 |
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