Associations between school climate and student life satisfaction: resilience and bullying as mediating factors

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dc.contributor.authorAldridge, Jill M.en_NZ
dc.contributor.authorMcChesney, Katrinaen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorAfari, Ernesten_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-11T00:25:07Z
dc.date.available2021-05-11T00:25:07Z
dc.date.issued2019en_NZ
dc.description.abstractBecause adolescent life satisfaction is associated with important affective, behavioural and health-related outcomes during both adolescence and later life, strategies for promoting adolescent life satisfaction have potential social value. In the study reported in this article, associations are reported between perceptions of the school climate and reports of bullying, resilience and life satisfaction for 6120 Australian adolescents. The study extended past research, which has given little attention to either the relationships between these variables or the relative roles of various school climate sub-constructs. Aspects of the school climate explained 41% of the variance in adolescents’ resilience, 16% of the variance in bully victimisation, and 54% of the variance in life satisfaction. Further, resilience was positively associated with life satisfaction. These results affirm the importance of the psychosocial school climate as a mechanism for improving adolescent (and life-course) outcomes, strengthening calls for schools to give greater attention to improving their psychosocial climates.
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dc.identifier.citationAldridge, J. M., McChesney, K., & Afari, E. (2019). Associations between school climate and student life satisfaction: resilience and bullying as mediating factors. Learning Environments Research, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10984-019-09296-9en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10984-019-09296-9en_NZ
dc.identifier.eissn1573-1855en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn1387-1579en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/14305
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLCen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfLearning Environments Researchen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10984-019-09296-9en_NZ
dc.rightsThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Learning Environments Research. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10984-019-09296-9
dc.titleAssociations between school climate and student life satisfaction: resilience and bullying as mediating factorsen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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pubs.user.infoMcChesney, Katrina (kmcchesn@waikato.ac.nz)
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