The Association of School Climate, Depression Literacy, and Mental Health Stigma among High School Students

Autor/inn/en	Townsend, Lisa; Musci, Rashelle; Stuart, Elizabeth; Ruble, Anne; Beaudry, Mary; Schweizer, Barbara; Owen, Megan; Goode, Carly; Johnson, Sarah L.; Bradshaw, Catherine; Wilcox, Holly; Swartz, Karen
Titel	The Association of School Climate, Depression Literacy, and Mental Health Stigma among High School Students
Quelle	(2017), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
DOI	10.1111/josh.12527
Schlagwörter	Educational Environment; Depression (Psychology); Mental Health; Social Bias; Negative Attitudes; High School Students; Student Attitudes; Beliefs; Grade 9; Grade 10; Correlation; Learner Engagement; Help Seeking; Maryland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Psychohygiene; Negative Fixierung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schülerverhalten; Belief; Glaube; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Korrelation; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten
Abstract	Background: Although school climate is linked with youth educational, socioemotional, behavioral, and health outcomes, there has been limited research on the association between school climate and mental health education efforts. This study explored whether school climate was associated with students' depression literacy and mental health stigma beliefs. Methods: Data were combined from two studies: the Maryland Safe Supportive Schools Project and a randomized controlled trial of the Adolescent Depression Awareness Program. Five high schools participated in both studies, allowing examination of depression literacy and stigma measures from 500 ninth and tenth graders. Multilevel models examined the relationship between school-level school climate characteristics and student-level depression literacy and mental health stigma scores. Results: Overall school climate was positively associated with depression literacy (OR= 2.78, p<0.001) and negatively associated with stigma (Est.=-3.822, p=0.001). Subscales of engagement (OR= 5.30, p<0.001) and environment were positively associated with depression literacy (OR= 2.01, p<0.001) and negatively associated with stigma (Est.=-6.610, p<0.001), (Est.=-2.742, p<0.001). Conclusions: Positive school climate was associated with greater odds of depression literacy and endorsement of fewer stigmatizing beliefs among students. Our findings raise awareness regarding aspects of the school environment that may facilitate or inhibit students' recognition of depression and subsequent treatment-seeking. [This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in "Journal of School Health." For the published version of this article, see EJ1147403.] (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01