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Empowerment-enabling home and school environments and self-rated health among Finnish adolescents

Publiceringsår

2020

Upphovspersoner

Simonsen, Nina; Lahti, Anna; Suominen, Sakari; Välimaa, Raili; Tynjälä, Jorma; Roos, Eva; Kannas, Lasse

Abstrakt

Perceived health during adolescence has not only immediate consequences for individuals and for society, but also long-term. We need to understand better the health development in this period of the lifespan. Empowerment may be one pathway through which social factors and conditions translate into health effects. This study aimed to examine whether empowerment-enabling home and school environments are associated with self-rated health among adolescents, and whether the associations differ between genders, age or majority/minority language groups. Anonymous questionnaire data from respondents aged 11, 13 and 15 years were obtained from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study, conducted in Finland in 2014 in Finnish- and Swedish-speaking schools (n = 5925/1877). The proportion rating their health as excellent varied between 33.6 (11-year-olds) and 23.1% (15-year-olds), boys rating their health as excellent more often than girls in all age groups. Findings showed that indicators of both empowerment-enabling home and school environments were independently and positively related to adolescents’ self-rated health. Whereas a respectful, accepting, kind and helpful attitude among classmates and a good home atmosphere were quite consistently associated with excellent health, there were gender and age differences with concern to the other empowerment-enabling indicators. Moreover, there were gender-, age- and language-related differences regarding adolescents’ perceptions of how empowerment enabling their environments were. Home and school environments that create opportunities through encouragement and care, and through strengthening feelings of being secure, accepted and respected are potentially empowerment enabling. This study suggests that such environmental qualities are important for the perceived health of young people.
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Organisationer och upphovspersoner

Helsingfors universitet

Roos Eva

Simonsen Nina

Jyväskylä universitet

Tynjälä Jorma

Kannas Lasse

Välimaa Raili Orcid -palvelun logo

Åbo universitet

Suominen Sakari

Publikationstyp

Publikationsform

Artikel

Moderpublikationens typ

Tidning

Artikelstyp

En originalartikel

Målgrupp

Vetenskaplig

Kollegialt utvärderad

Kollegialt utvärderad

UKM:s publikationstyp

A1 Originalartikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift

Publikationskanalens uppgifter

Moderpublikationens namn

Health Promotion International

Volym

35

Nummer

1

Sidor

82-92

Publikationsforum

56930

Publikationsforumsnivå

1

Öppen tillgång

Öppen tillgänglighet i förläggarens tjänst

Nej

Parallellsparad

Ja

Övriga uppgifter

Vetenskapsområden

Pedagogik; Hälsovetenskap; Folkhälsovetenskap, miljö och arbetshälsa

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Publiceringsland

Förenade kungariket

Förlagets internationalitet

Internationell

Språk

engelska

Internationell sampublikation

Ja

Sampublikation med ett företag

Nej

DOI

10.1093/heapro/day104

Publikationen ingår i undervisnings- och kulturministeriets datainsamling

Ja