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Hartas, Dimitra (2021) The social context of adolescent mental health and wellbeing : parents, friends and social media. Research Papers in Education, 36 (5). pp. 542-560. doi:10.1080/02671522.2019.1697734 ISSN 1470-1146.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2019.1697734
Abstract
Concerns about mental health difficulties in young people, mid-adolescent girls in particular, are on the rise. Many explanations ranging from peer pressure and bullying, to social media and gender inequality, have been offered for the rise in mental health problems. This study utilised data from the Millennium Cohort Study (Wave 6) to examine 14-year-olds’ mental health and wellbeing in relation to familial and peer interactions, gender, socio-economic factors and social media use. Across measures of mental health and wellbeing, the findings showed that girls fared much worse than boys, particularly in experiencing negative feelings and low self-concept and life satisfaction and in self-harming. Teenage girls appeared to have become the new ‘high risk’ group. The findings from this study have implications for young people’s mental health and wellbeing especially as seen through the lens of income and gender inequality. Given the current political concerns about young people’s mental health, this study is hoped to contribute to an informed debate about individual wellbeing within a broader social milieu.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Teenagers -- Mental health, Well-being, Sex role in mass media, Mass media and girls , Girls -- Mental health, Sex discrimination | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Research Papers in Education | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1470-1146 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 36 | ||||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 542-560 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/02671522.2019.1697734 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Research Papers in Education on 18/12/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02671522.2019.1697734 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Description: | Free access |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 January 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 June 2021 |
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