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The role of class-level composition and schools´ contextual characteristics for school-aged children´s life satisfaction: a three-level multilevel analysis
- Source :
- International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, Vol 25, Iss 1, Pp 12-24 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Abstract
- Aim of this study is to examine the role of individual, class-level composition and school-level contextual features on school-aged children´s life satisfaction. Methods: Data from students in ninth grade (n = 10,715), in 745 classes within 406 secondary schools of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) were used. Bivariate and three-level logistic multilevel analyses were conducted including individual-level, class-level composition (school performance, school disengagement, ambition and academic effort, level of helplessness in major subjects), teacher assessments of class composition, and school-level features (funding, socio-economic status, school infrastructure). At Results show, that at class-level, level of ambitious classmates was associated with higher life satisfaction. Students placed in classrooms with higher shares of classmates expecting academic effort revealed lower life satisfaction. Class- and school-level features were not significantly related to students’ life satisfaction. Conclusions: ApartIt can be concluded, that apart from contextual features, the composition of the overall learning environment in class is partially related to young people´s life satisfaction.
- Subjects :
- lcsh:LC8-6691
Health (social science)
School age child
lcsh:Special aspects of education
lcsh:HQ1-2044
Learning environment
05 social sciences
Multilevel model
education
class composition
Life satisfaction
050109 social psychology
school context
Three level
Developmental psychology
national educational panel study (neps)
learning environment
lcsh:The family. Marriage. Woman
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychology
Class level
Composition (language)
life satisfaction
multilevel modeling
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21644527 and 02673843
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d5e523bba41008b74b9db1d5b0858e63