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Mental health profiles and academic achievement in Australian school students
Tess Gregory1, Neida Sechague Monroy2, Blair Grace2
1Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Ground Floor, 108 North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia; School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Level 4, 50 Rundle Mall, Rundle Mall Plaza, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
Abstract:
This study explored mental health profiles in Australian school students using indicators of well-being (i.e., optimism, life satisfaction, and happiness) and psychological distress (i.e., sadness and worries). The sample included 75,757 students (ages 8-18 years) who completed the 2019 South Australian Wellbeing and Engagement Collection. Latent profile analysis identified five mental health profiles consisting of (a) complete mental health (23%), (b) good mental health (33%), (c) moderate mental health (27%), (d) symptomatic but content (9%), and (e) troubled (8%). Findings provide partial support for the dual-factor model of mental health. Distal outcomes analysis on a sub-set of students (n = 24,466) found students with a symptomatic but content, moderate mental health, or troubled profile had poorer academic achievement than students with complete mental health. Implications for schools and education systems are discussed, including the need to pair clinical supports for students with psychological distress with population-level preventative health approaches to build psychological well-being.
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