Trends in perceived school stress among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014
Associations between school-related stress and poor health, risk behaviours and low well-being are well documented. The aim of this paper was to estimate trends of perceived school stress experienced by boys and girls of different ages in the Nordic countries, and to describe trends in school stress...
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/67725 2024-02-04T10:01:27+01:00 Trends in perceived school stress among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 Löfstedt, Petra Eriksson, Charli Potrebny, Thomas Välimaa, Raili Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin Due, Pernille Damsgaard, Mogens Trab Suominen, Sakari Rasmussen, Mette Torsheim, Torbjørn 2019 application/pdf 101-112 fulltext http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202002041976 eng eng Universitetsforlaget Nordisk välfärdsforskning 2464-4161 2 4 10.18261/issn.2464-4161-2019-02-07 Löfstedt, P., Eriksson, C., Potrebny, T., Välimaa, R., Thorsteinsson, E. B., Due, P., Damsgaard, M. T., Suominen, S., Rasmussen, M., & Torsheim, T. (2019). Trends in perceived school stress among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014. Nordisk välfärdsforskning , 4 (2), 101-112. https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2464-4161-2019-02-07 CONVID_34498599 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202002041976 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202002041976 CC BY-NC 4.0 © 2019 Authors openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Pohjoismaat life satisfaction adolescents country comparisons Nordic countries hyvinvointi nuoret stressi kansainvälinen vertailu article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 publishedVersion A1 2019 ftjyvaeskylaenun 2024-01-11T00:03:57Z Associations between school-related stress and poor health, risk behaviours and low well-being are well documented. The aim of this paper was to estimate trends of perceived school stress experienced by boys and girls of different ages in the Nordic countries, and to describe trends in school stress between the Nordic countries. Nordic data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (HBSC) between 2002 and 2014 were used. The participants were aged 11–16 years. School stress was measured by a single item; “How pressured do you feel by schoolwork?” The participants answering “some” or “a lot” were categorised as reporting school stress. Sweden, Norway and Denmark had lower prevalence of school stress compared to Finland and Iceland. There was an increase in Iceland, Finland and Denmark, whereas adolescents from Sweden showed a decreasing trend. In Norway, the level was stable. Boys showed a marginal decline in school stress whereas girls showed an increase, and school stress increased by age for the whole period. It is a challenge for the public education systems in the Nordic countries to develop policies and practices that provide children with the necessary tools to achieve knowledge and skill, and at the same minimise stress in school. peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive Norway |
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Associations between school-related stress and poor health, risk behaviours and low well-being are well documented. The aim of this paper was to estimate trends of perceived school stress experienced by boys and girls of different ages in the Nordic countries, and to describe trends in school stress between the Nordic countries. Nordic data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (HBSC) between 2002 and 2014 were used. The participants were aged 11–16 years. School stress was measured by a single item; “How pressured do you feel by schoolwork?” The participants answering “some” or “a lot” were categorised as reporting school stress. Sweden, Norway and Denmark had lower prevalence of school stress compared to Finland and Iceland. There was an increase in Iceland, Finland and Denmark, whereas adolescents from Sweden showed a decreasing trend. In Norway, the level was stable. Boys showed a marginal decline in school stress whereas girls showed an increase, and school stress increased by age for the whole period. It is a challenge for the public education systems in the Nordic countries to develop policies and practices that provide children with the necessary tools to achieve knowledge and skill, and at the same minimise stress in school. peerReviewed |
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Löfstedt, Petra Eriksson, Charli Potrebny, Thomas Välimaa, Raili Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin Due, Pernille Damsgaard, Mogens Trab Suominen, Sakari Rasmussen, Mette Torsheim, Torbjørn |
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Löfstedt, Petra Eriksson, Charli Potrebny, Thomas Välimaa, Raili Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin Due, Pernille Damsgaard, Mogens Trab Suominen, Sakari Rasmussen, Mette Torsheim, Torbjørn |
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Trends in perceived school stress among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 |
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Trends in perceived school stress among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 |
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Trends in perceived school stress among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 |
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Trends in perceived school stress among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 |
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Trends in perceived school stress among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 |
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Nordisk välfärdsforskning 2464-4161 2 4 10.18261/issn.2464-4161-2019-02-07 Löfstedt, P., Eriksson, C., Potrebny, T., Välimaa, R., Thorsteinsson, E. B., Due, P., Damsgaard, M. T., Suominen, S., Rasmussen, M., & Torsheim, T. (2019). Trends in perceived school stress among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014. Nordisk välfärdsforskning , 4 (2), 101-112. https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2464-4161-2019-02-07 CONVID_34498599 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202002041976 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202002041976 |
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