How School Climate Aspects Affect the Development of Adolescence’s Psychological Well-being

Abstract

We examined how each school climate aspect affect adolescence’s psychological well-being by emphasizing that school climate is the quality of school process which is can be either support or worsen the adolescence’s psychological well-being. In achiving the research purposes we used two kinds of instruments namely Inventory of School Climate-Student (ISC–S) and The Scale of Eudaimonia. From the simple regression analysis we found that there is a significant relationship bertween school climate and adolescence’s psychological well-being; meanwhile from the partial regression analysis the results are vary where three of school climate aspects do not affect adolecence’s psychological well-being and seven others significantly affect adolescence’s psychological well-being.


 


 


Keywords: School Climate; Psychological Well-being; Eudaimonia; Development of Adolescence; Health Behavior.

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