Abstract
Background
It is well known that the socio-economic status (SES) has a great impact on adult and childhood well-being. Comparatively little research has been conducted on the relationship of adolescents’ subjective well-being to SES. Recent studies though, display a tendency for a strong relationship between adolescences’ subjective physical, mental and social well-being to SES. We therefore wanted to find out whether an association exists between SES and subjective physical, mental and social well-being among adolescents as well as between SES and individual school marks.
Methods
The cross-sectional data of 450 German adolescent students (average age 11 years old) were analysed. The data included socio-demographic variables, school marks and selected subscales of three well-established questionnaires [KIDSCREEN, Kid-Kindl® and the German version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-deu)]. The Hamburg Social School Index (HSSI) was used as an indicator of SES.
Results
Significant differences between SES and physical (T = −2.04; p < 0.05) as well as social well-being (‘Social Support and Peers’ with T = −2.04; p < 0.05) of adolescents were found. Generally, no relations between SES and mental well-being were found. School marks also differed between low and high school SES [German (T = 3.13; p < 0.05), English (T = 5.38; p < 0.01), Mathematics (T = 3.16; p < 0.05) and Sports (T = 2.10; p < 0.05)].
Conclusion
As health in adolescence is a predictor for health in adulthood, health promotion and prevention need to start early (primary school) to improve physical and social well-being in low SES families and schools.
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Conflict of interest: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
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Funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Necessity for redesigning premarital counseling classes based on marriage readiness from the perspective of adolescents and specialists: a need assessment based on the Bourich model and quadrant analysis
- Knowledge and attitude of Egyptian parents toward childhood mental disorders
- The association of resilience with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adolescent students
- Self-esteem and motivation with adherence of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Indonesia with antiretroviral therapy: a cross-sectional study
- Rethinking early childbearing in Indonesia: is it preceded by a premarital first birth?
- Effectiveness of different methods of health education on knowledge and attitude regarding palliative care among college students in urban Puducherry: a pre-post intervention study
- Prevalence and correlates of being bullied among adolescents in Indonesia: results from the 2015 Global School-based Student Health Survey
- Effect of acupressure on post tonsillectomy pain in adolescents: a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled trial study
- Perceived stress and coping strategies among undergraduate dental students – an institutional based study
- Effects of carrying school bags on cervical and shoulder posture in static and dynamic conditions in adolescent students
- Validation of the Arabic version of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale in Tunisian adolescents
- Determining predictors of change in sugar sweetened beverage consumption behaviour among university students in India
- Association between menstrual disorders and school absenteeism among schoolgirls in South Egypt
- The association between iron deficiency anemia and febrile seizure
- Experience of bullying among Bhutanese college students: implications for teacher formation programmes
- Does an association exist between socio-economic status and subjective physical, mental and social well-being among early adolescents?
- The effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on the mental health of students with an emotional breakdown
- Sleep quality and its effect on event related potential P300 in adolescents with and without sleep disturbances
- The effect of rational-emotive behavior therapy on anxiety and resilience in students
- The use of gadgets and their relationship to poor sleep quality and social interaction on mid-adolescents: a cross-sectional study
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- Inadequate awareness of cervical cancer and its prevention among young women of Delhi, India: public health policy implications
- Prevalence and risk factors of polycystic ovarian syndrome among an ethnically diverse overweight/obese adolescent population
- Comparison of the effect of self-care education in a disaster with two student-centered and family-centered approaches to self-care in students
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