ArticleThe British journal of educational psychology2023
Mental health and loneliness in Scottish schools: A multilevel analysis of data from the health behaviour in school-aged children study.
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- Loneliness and adolescent mental health: a multilevel examination of socio-ecological factors across Czech schools.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- The seven deadly sins: measuring overvaluation of social media with the Plan-net 25 scale.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Psychometric analysis of the three item loneliness scale in the Czech Republic.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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- Mental health and loneliness in Scottish schools: A multilevel analysis of data from the health behaviour in school-aged children study.The British journal of educational psychology · 2023Article
- The prospective relationship between loneliness, life satisfaction and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.Zeitschrift fur Gesundheitswissenschaften = Journal of public health · 2022Article
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backgroundAdolescent loneliness and poor mental health represent dual public health concerns. Yet, associations between loneliness and mental health, and critically, how these associations vary in school settings are less understood.
aimsFramed by social-ecological theory, we aimed to identify key predictors of adolescent mental health and examine school-level variation in the relationship between loneliness and mental health. SAMPLE: Cross-sectional data on adolescents from the 2018 wave of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (HBSC) in Scotland were used (N = 5286).
methodsMental health was measured as a composite variable containing items assessing nervousness, irritability, sleep difficulties and feeling low. Loneliness was measured via a single item assessing how often adolescents felt 'left out'. Multilevel models were used to identify social-ecological predictors of mental health, associations with loneliness and between-school variation.
resultsLoneliness, as well as demographic, social and school factors, was found to be associated with mental health. Mental health varied across schools, with the between-school difference greater among adolescents with high levels of loneliness. Additionally, the negative effect of loneliness on mental health was stronger in schools with lower average mental health scores.
conclusionsThe findings suggest that schools can play an important role in shaping adolescent mental health. Our study uniquely identifies that school-based interventions targeting mental health may be especially necessary among lonely adolescents, and programmes aimed at tackling loneliness may be more beneficial in schools with poorer mental health.
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