Individual and School Environment Predictors of Mental Health and Wellbeing Across the Primary-to-Secondary School Transition.

ABSTRACT: Transition from primary to secondary school is an important life event for young people that may have impacts on mental health. Objective and subjective measures of the school environment may be associated with mental health outcomes post-transition. Pre-transition (year 6, aged 10-11) survey data from young people in Wales, UK, were linked to post-transition (year 7, aged 11-12) survey data (n = 506) and combined with an objective value-added measure of school meaningfulness created from administrative data. Multi-level models were run, adjusting for pre-transition mental health difficulties, to investigate the relationship between individual and school-level variables, including self-reported perceptions of school connectedness and school meaningfulness, and mental health difficul

SUBMITTER: Donaldson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12479681 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature