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

Julkaisuvuosi

2020

Tekijät

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

Tiivistelmä

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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Organisaatiot ja tekijät

Helsingin yliopisto

Roos Eva

Simonsen Nina

Jyväskylän yliopisto

Tynjälä Jorma

Kannas Lasse

Välimaa Raili Orcid -palvelun logo

Turun yliopisto

Suominen Sakari

Julkaisutyyppi

Julkaisumuoto

Artikkeli

Emojulkaisun tyyppi

Lehti

Artikkelin tyyppi

Alkuperäisartikkeli

Yleisö

Tieteellinen

Vertaisarvioitu

Vertaisarvioitu

OKM:n julkaisutyyppiluokitus

A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

Julkaisukanavan tiedot

Volyymi

35

Numero

1

Sivut

82-92

Julkaisu­foorumi

56930

Julkaisufoorumitaso

1

Avoin saatavuus

Avoin saatavuus kustantajan palvelussa

Ei

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Kyllä

Muut tiedot

Tieteenalat

Kasvatustieteet; Terveystiede; Kansanterveystiede, ympäristö ja työterveys

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Julkaisumaa

Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta

Kustantajan kansainvälisyys

Kansainvälinen

Kieli

englanti

Kansainvälinen yhteisjulkaisu

Kyllä

Yhteisjulkaisu yrityksen kanssa

Ei

DOI

10.1093/heapro/day104

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