Feeling Unsafe at School Among Adolescents in 13 Asian and European Countries: Occurrence and Associated Factors
BackgroundResearch on perceived school safety has been largely limited to studies conducted in Western countries and there has been a lack of large-scale cross-national studies on the topic.MethodsThe present study examined the occurrence of adolescents who felt unsafe at school and the associated f...
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| author | Yuko Mori Yuko Mori Elina Tiiri Elina Tiiri Lotta Lempinen Lotta Lempinen Anat Brunstein Klomek Gerasimos Kolaitis Helena R. Slobodskaya Helena R. Slobodskaya Hitoshi Kaneko Jorge C. Srabstein Jorge C. Srabstein Liping Li Mai Nguyen Huong Samir Kumar Praharaj Samir Kumar Praharaj Say How Ong Sigita Lesinskiene Henriette Kyrrestad Tjhin Wiguna Zahra Zamani Lauri Sillanmäki Andre Sourander Andre Sourander the EACMHS Study Group Shahin Akhondzadeh Daniel. S S. Fung Meytal Grimland Hod Hasharon Shoko Hamada Roshan Chudal Raden Irawati Jain Praveen A G. Avinash Jerrine. Z N. Khong Sturla Fossum Limawan Albert Prabowo Maryam Mohseny Ali Najafi Ngoc Thanh Minh Masayoshi Ogura Zhekuan Peng Rippinen Tatiana O Rini Sekartini Nadezhda B Norbert Skokauskas Yi Tan Ren Kalliopi Triantafyllou Foivos Zaravinos-Tsakos |
| author_facet | Yuko Mori Yuko Mori Elina Tiiri Elina Tiiri Lotta Lempinen Lotta Lempinen Anat Brunstein Klomek Gerasimos Kolaitis Helena R. Slobodskaya Helena R. Slobodskaya Hitoshi Kaneko Jorge C. Srabstein Jorge C. Srabstein Liping Li Mai Nguyen Huong Samir Kumar Praharaj Samir Kumar Praharaj Say How Ong Sigita Lesinskiene Henriette Kyrrestad Tjhin Wiguna Zahra Zamani Lauri Sillanmäki Andre Sourander Andre Sourander the EACMHS Study Group Shahin Akhondzadeh Daniel. S S. Fung Meytal Grimland Hod Hasharon Shoko Hamada Roshan Chudal Raden Irawati Jain Praveen A G. Avinash Jerrine. Z N. Khong Sturla Fossum Limawan Albert Prabowo Maryam Mohseny Ali Najafi Ngoc Thanh Minh Masayoshi Ogura Zhekuan Peng Rippinen Tatiana O Rini Sekartini Nadezhda B Norbert Skokauskas Yi Tan Ren Kalliopi Triantafyllou Foivos Zaravinos-Tsakos |
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| description | BackgroundResearch on perceived school safety has been largely limited to studies conducted in Western countries and there has been a lack of large-scale cross-national studies on the topic.MethodsThe present study examined the occurrence of adolescents who felt unsafe at school and the associated factors of perceived school safety in 13 Asian and European countries. The data were based on 21,688 adolescents aged 13-15 (11,028 girls, 10,660 boys) who completed self-administered surveys between 2011 and 2017. Logistic regression analyses were used to estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals.FindingsThe number of adolescents who felt unsafe at school varied widely across countries, with a mean occurrence of 31.4% for the total sample: 31.3% for girls, and 31.1% for boys. The findings revealed strong independent associations between feeling unsafe and individual and school-related factors, such as being bullied, emotional and behavioral problems and feeling that teachers did not care. The study also found large variations in perceived school safety between schools in many countries.ConclusionThe findings emphasize the need to create safe educational environments for all students, based on positive relationships with teachers and peers. School-based interventions to prevent bullying and promote mental health should be a natural part of school safety promotion. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3fd5a1d417674613a6b272eb4fe1d2582022-12-22T00:08:37ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402022-04-011310.3389/fpsyt.2022.823609823609Feeling Unsafe at School Among Adolescents in 13 Asian and European Countries: Occurrence and Associated FactorsYuko Mori0Yuko Mori1Elina Tiiri2Elina Tiiri3Lotta Lempinen4Lotta Lempinen5Anat Brunstein Klomek6Gerasimos Kolaitis7Helena R. Slobodskaya8Helena R. Slobodskaya9Hitoshi Kaneko10Jorge C. Srabstein11Jorge C. Srabstein12Liping Li13Mai Nguyen Huong14Samir Kumar Praharaj15Samir Kumar Praharaj16Say How Ong17Sigita Lesinskiene18Henriette Kyrrestad19Tjhin Wiguna20Zahra Zamani21Lauri Sillanmäki22Andre Sourander23Andre Sourander24the EACMHS Study GroupShahin AkhondzadehDaniel. SS. FungMeytal GrimlandHod HasharonShoko HamadaRoshan ChudalRaden IrawatiJain Praveen AG. AvinashJerrine. ZN. KhongSturla FossumLimawan Albert PrabowoMaryam MohsenyAli NajafiNgoc Thanh MinhMasayoshi OguraZhekuan PengRippinen Tatiana ORini SekartiniNadezhda BNorbert SkokauskasYi Tan RenKalliopi TriantafyllouFoivos Zaravinos-TsakosDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of Turku, Turku, FinlandINVEST Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, FinlandDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of Turku, Turku, FinlandDepartment of Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital, University of Turku, Turku, FinlandDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of Turku, Turku, FinlandINVEST Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, FinlandBaruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University, Herzliya, IsraelDepartment of Child Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GreeceDepartment of Medicine, Scientific Research Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Novosibirsk, RussiaDepartment of Medicine, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, RussiaPsychological Support and Research Center for Human Development, Nagoya University, Nagoya, JapanDivision of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, United States0Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States1Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China2Department of Psychiatry, Vietnam National Children's Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam3Department of Psychiatry, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India4Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India5Department of Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore6Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Psychiatry, Vilnius, Lithuania7Faculty of Health Sciences, Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway8Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia9Department of Community Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of Turku, Turku, FinlandDepartment of Child Psychiatry, University of Turku, Turku, FinlandDepartment of Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital, University of Turku, Turku, FinlandBackgroundResearch on perceived school safety has been largely limited to studies conducted in Western countries and there has been a lack of large-scale cross-national studies on the topic.MethodsThe present study examined the occurrence of adolescents who felt unsafe at school and the associated factors of perceived school safety in 13 Asian and European countries. The data were based on 21,688 adolescents aged 13-15 (11,028 girls, 10,660 boys) who completed self-administered surveys between 2011 and 2017. Logistic regression analyses were used to estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals.FindingsThe number of adolescents who felt unsafe at school varied widely across countries, with a mean occurrence of 31.4% for the total sample: 31.3% for girls, and 31.1% for boys. The findings revealed strong independent associations between feeling unsafe and individual and school-related factors, such as being bullied, emotional and behavioral problems and feeling that teachers did not care. The study also found large variations in perceived school safety between schools in many countries.ConclusionThe findings emphasize the need to create safe educational environments for all students, based on positive relationships with teachers and peers. School-based interventions to prevent bullying and promote mental health should be a natural part of school safety promotion.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.823609/fullschool safetyschool climatemental healthadolescentassociated factorsfeeling unsafe |
| spellingShingle | Yuko Mori Yuko Mori Elina Tiiri Elina Tiiri Lotta Lempinen Lotta Lempinen Anat Brunstein Klomek Gerasimos Kolaitis Helena R. Slobodskaya Helena R. Slobodskaya Hitoshi Kaneko Jorge C. Srabstein Jorge C. Srabstein Liping Li Mai Nguyen Huong Samir Kumar Praharaj Samir Kumar Praharaj Say How Ong Sigita Lesinskiene Henriette Kyrrestad Tjhin Wiguna Zahra Zamani Lauri Sillanmäki Andre Sourander Andre Sourander the EACMHS Study Group Shahin Akhondzadeh Daniel. S S. Fung Meytal Grimland Hod Hasharon Shoko Hamada Roshan Chudal Raden Irawati Jain Praveen A G. Avinash Jerrine. Z N. Khong Sturla Fossum Limawan Albert Prabowo Maryam Mohseny Ali Najafi Ngoc Thanh Minh Masayoshi Ogura Zhekuan Peng Rippinen Tatiana O Rini Sekartini Nadezhda B Norbert Skokauskas Yi Tan Ren Kalliopi Triantafyllou Foivos Zaravinos-Tsakos Feeling Unsafe at School Among Adolescents in 13 Asian and European Countries: Occurrence and Associated Factors Frontiers in Psychiatry school safety school climate mental health adolescent associated factors feeling unsafe |
| title | Feeling Unsafe at School Among Adolescents in 13 Asian and European Countries: Occurrence and Associated Factors |
| title_full | Feeling Unsafe at School Among Adolescents in 13 Asian and European Countries: Occurrence and Associated Factors |
| title_fullStr | Feeling Unsafe at School Among Adolescents in 13 Asian and European Countries: Occurrence and Associated Factors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Feeling Unsafe at School Among Adolescents in 13 Asian and European Countries: Occurrence and Associated Factors |
| title_short | Feeling Unsafe at School Among Adolescents in 13 Asian and European Countries: Occurrence and Associated Factors |
| title_sort | feeling unsafe at school among adolescents in 13 asian and european countries occurrence and associated factors |
| topic | school safety school climate mental health adolescent associated factors feeling unsafe |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.823609/full |
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