ArticleFrontiers in public health2026
How the digital literacy level of teachers affects student well-being: a configuration analysis approach based on fsQCA.
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As digital education continues to deepen, how teachers' digital literacy affects students' well-being has become an important issue with both educational value and public health significance. To move beyond the limitations of traditional variable-centered thinking and to respond to the theoretical demand of viewing digital literacy as a complex system, this study adopts a configurational theoretical perspective and employs fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Based on data from 540 questionnaire surveys, it systematically explores the multiple concurrent causal mechanisms through which different dimensions of teachers' digital literacy influence students' well-being. The findings show that: (1) professional development, digital application, and digital social responsibility are core necessary conditions for enhancing students' well-being; (2) digital awareness and digital technology knowledge and skills, as auxiliary conditions, form multiple equivalent configurational pathways in combination with the core conditions, indicating that there is no single optimal path to improving students' well-being; and (3) the multidimensional synergistic effects of teachers' digital literacy highlight the importance of systematic integration, as improvement in a single dimension alone is insufficient to comprehensively promote students' well-being. This study not only methodologically demonstrates the applicability of configurational analysis in revealing complex education-health mechanisms, but also extends the theoretical explanation of adolescent well-being as a public health outcome from a systems perspective. It provides evidence-based intervention implications for teacher development in the digital transformation of education, thereby linking the dual goals of improving educational quality and promoting population health at both theoretical and practical levels.
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