Education and Psychological Distress in Adolescence and Mid-Life: Do Private Schools Make a Difference?

Autor/inn/en	Sullivan, Alice; Parsons, Samantha; Ploubidis, George; Wiggins, Richard D.; Green, Francis
Titel	Education and Psychological Distress in Adolescence and Mid-Life: Do Private Schools Make a Difference?
Quelle	In: British Educational Research Journal, 47 (2021) 3, S.599-615 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sullivan, Alice)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-1926
DOI	10.1002/berj.3674
Schlagwörter	Stress Variables; Mental Health; Adolescents; Adults; Private Schools; Early Experience; Correlation; Advantaged; Disadvantaged; Gender Differences; Mothers; Educational Attainment; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychohygiene; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Private school; Privatschule; Frühbeginn; Korrelation; Geschlechterkonflikt; Mother; Mutter; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article extends the evidence base on childhood circumstances, education and psychological distress. We examine the link between childhood advantage and disadvantage, the type of school attended during adolescence and psychological distress at ages 16 and 42. The analysis uses a large, population-based birth cohort study, the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) (n = 17,198) using a structural equation modelling (SEM) approach. More advantaged young people were more likely to attend private schools, but we find no evidence for an effect of private schooling on psychological distress for men, and for women there was an association between private schooling and raised psychological distress at age 16. Having a university degree was associated with a modest reduction in psychological distress in mid-life. We establish that maternal psychological distress at age 10 was a risk factor for the offspring's psychological distress both in adolescence and in mid-life, and adolescent psychological distress predicts psychological distress in mid-life. We conclude that schools which are academically successful do not necessarily provide wider benefits in terms of mental health. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01