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Activity Number: 209
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, July 30, 2007 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #308757
Title: School Social Support and Adolescent Depressiveness: Multilevel Analysis of Finnish School Health Promotion Survey
Author(s): Noora Ellonen*+
Companies: University of Tampere
Address: Harmalansaarenkatu 6 A 11, Tampere, FIN-33900, Finland
Keywords: adolescent ; depressiveness ; school effect ; multilevel analysis ; social support ; climate consensus
Abstract:

This study elaborates the meaning of the school social support in adolescent mental health. Adolescent depressiveness is explained with school social support provided by teachers and classmates and operationalized as quality (average) and consensus (variation) of the climate. The analysis is made with multilevel logistic regression analysis, which is conducted with MLwiN 1.1 and the parameters are estimated with the RIGLS method. Results of the analysis suggest that the amount of school social support have no significant effect on adolescent depressiveness, although at the individual-level the social support perception shows a meaningful effect. The consensus about the social climate, however, has a significant increasing effect on adolescent depressiveness. Analysis is based on School Promotion Health Survey, which covers about 90 % of Finnish 14-16-years-old adolescents.

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