Teachers’ assessments of children aged eight predict life satisfaction in adolescence
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Honkanen Meri Hurtig Tuula Taanila Anja Moilanen Irma Koponen Hannu Ma¨ki Pirjo Veijola Juha Puustja¨rvi Anita Ebeling Hanna Koivuma
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
The objective was to investigate how teachers’ assessments of children predict life satisfaction in adolescence. This is a prospective cohort study on the populationbased Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 (n = 8,959). Information was gathered from parents, teachers and adolescents using questionnaires at the age of 7, 8 and 15. Response rates were 80–90%. Emotional and behavioural problems were assessed with Rutter Children’s Behavioural Questionnaires for teachers (RB2) and parents (RA2) during the first grade at age 8. At adolescence, self-reported life satisfaction was measured with a question including five response alternatives. According to teachers’ assessments, 13.9% of the children had high emotional or behavioural problems (RB2 C9). These assessments predicted life dissatisfaction in adolescence (ORcrude = 1.77; 95% CI 1.43–2.20) in several models including also health behaviour and use of psychotropic medicine. However, introducing all the significant variables in the same model, RB2 lost its significance (OR = 1.28; 0.96–1.70), but good school achievement assessed by teachers was still a significant predictor. Life satisfaction in adolescence was associated with a variety of favourable concurrent factors. In conclusion teachers’ assessments of children during the first school year predicted life satisfaction in adolescence
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry DOI 10.1007/s00787-011-0200-6 Received: 5 January 2011 / Accepted: 30 June 2011
