Exploring physical, subjective and psychological wellbeing profile membership in adolescents: a latent profile analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding wellbeing in adolescents and within education settings is crucial to supporting young people. However, research defining and exploring wellbeing has typically taken a focus on subjective, psychological, social and emotional domains and has failed to incorporate aspects of physical health and wellbeing. This study aimed to explore how both physical and subjective and psychological wellbeing can be combined to generate different profiles of wellbeing in adolescents, and to understand the characteristics associated with this profile membership.

Methods

366 adolescents aged 11-16yrs (mean age 12.75) from three mainstream secondary schools across England completed an online survey capturing demographic characteristics, physical, subjective and psychologic

SUBMITTER: Hennessey A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11619419 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature