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Frames of agency in a school with poor indoor-air quality: A longitudinal composite narrative study.
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Health & Place . Jul2024, Vol. 88, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Problems with schools' indoor-air quality are common, and they can cause health problems to adolescents. However, no previous research has examined how adolescents make sense of such contaminated socio-material environments or what kinds of agency those environments afford. Taking an ecological psychology perspective informed by frame analysis, we analysed longitudinal focus group interviews with adolescents in a Finnish school with longstanding indoor-air problems. We constructed three composite first-person narratives that reflected different experiential frames, with corresponding forms and changes of agency. We found that our adolescents made sense of the same socio-material environment and its affordances in very different ways, and this process afforded them to develop many kinds of agency that changed over time. • Poor school building conditions shape adolescents' agency and health in many ways. • Adolescents can make sense of the same health-risk environment in different ways. • School buildings should be particularly well taken care of. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13538292
- Volume :
- 88
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Health & Place
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177748706
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103256