TY - JOUR
T1 - Profiles of School-Related Well-Being and Their Links to Self-Esteem and Academic Achievement
AU - Holzer, Julia
AU - Korlat, Selma
AU - Bürger, Sarah
AU - Spiel, Christiane
AU - Schober, Barbara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - School represents an essential developmental context for adolescents. Accordingly, understanding well-being in school is of utmost importance. While it has long been common to measure well-being on a general level, more recent conceptualizations emphasize its multidimensionality and context-specificity. Therefore, the present study took a person-oriented approach and investigated how profiles of adolescents’ school-related well-being differ regarding two relevant goals of schooling: academic achievement and self-esteem. School-related well-being was assessed along five dimensions: engagement, perseverance, optimism, connectedness, and happiness among Austrian students (N = 1,484). By applying latent profile analyses, we obtained four profiles that differed primarily regarding their total school-related well-being scores and the expression of connectedness. Generally, groups with a higher total score displayed higher academic achievement and self-esteem. However, there are also exceptions standing out from that pattern. Different constellations are discussed, aiming to contribute to further differentiating research on well-being in the school-context.
AB - School represents an essential developmental context for adolescents. Accordingly, understanding well-being in school is of utmost importance. While it has long been common to measure well-being on a general level, more recent conceptualizations emphasize its multidimensionality and context-specificity. Therefore, the present study took a person-oriented approach and investigated how profiles of adolescents’ school-related well-being differ regarding two relevant goals of schooling: academic achievement and self-esteem. School-related well-being was assessed along five dimensions: engagement, perseverance, optimism, connectedness, and happiness among Austrian students (N = 1,484). By applying latent profile analyses, we obtained four profiles that differed primarily regarding their total school-related well-being scores and the expression of connectedness. Generally, groups with a higher total score displayed higher academic achievement and self-esteem. However, there are also exceptions standing out from that pattern. Different constellations are discussed, aiming to contribute to further differentiating research on well-being in the school-context.
KW - ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL
KW - EMOTIONS
KW - EPOCH
KW - academic achievement
KW - latent profile analysis
KW - school-related well-being
KW - self-esteem
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U2 - 10.1027/2151-2604/a000498
DO - 10.1027/2151-2604/a000498
M3 - Article
SN - 2190-8370
VL - 230
SP - 189
EP - 200
JO - Zeitschrift für Psychologie
JF - Zeitschrift für Psychologie
IS - 3
ER -