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Student Development and Behavioral Health: The Influence of Environment and Relationships

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Children's Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 14240

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Dr. Huan Wang

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Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Interests: mental health; school dropout
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Dr. Scott D. Rozelle

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Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Interests: health economics; nutrition; early childhood development
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

One of the challenges in education is promoting students’ cognitive development, raising students’ academic achievements, and improving students’ social emotional learning, including students’ behavioral health. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has led policymakers to begin embracing a more comprehensive definition of student well-being in their design of new education policies.

As overall student well-being moves towards the forefront of policymakers’ agendas, there is a need to better understand the social–environmental factors that determine students’ behavioral outcomes. Given today’s rapidly changing society, the social–environmental determinants of behavioral outcomes may vary significantly across geographical boundaries and time periods. Understanding these factors will help support the design of evidence-based, contextually sensitive approaches to improving student behavioral outcomes, which will in turn enable more students to succeed in school and in life.

In this Special Issue, we invite researchers in public health, psychology, health economics, and other social sciences to submit high-quality empirical papers related to the issues in this important research area.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Huan Wang
Dr. Scott D. Rozelle
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • behavioral health
  • mental health
  • early childhood development
  • K-12 education
  • social emotional learning
  • social environment
  • resilience

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Pro-Environmental Behaviors and Well-Being in Adolescence: The Mediating Role of Place Attachment
by Maria Giuseppina Bartolo, Rocco Servidio, Anna Lisa Palermiti, Maria Rosaria Nappa and Angela Costabile
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(10), 5759; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20105759 - 9 May 2023
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Adolescents represent the future generation, so it is important to pay attention to behaviors that involve them as actors in social activities and constitute the expression of an adequate growth path. Engaging in pro-environmental behaviors leads adolescents to do something good for themselves, [...] Read more.
Adolescents represent the future generation, so it is important to pay attention to behaviors that involve them as actors in social activities and constitute the expression of an adequate growth path. Engaging in pro-environmental behaviors leads adolescents to do something good for themselves, for their own community, and for the place in which they live, and this type of conduct increases their levels of well-being and place attachment. This study examines the association between pro-environmental behavior and personal and social well-being in a sample of 1925 adolescents aged 14 to 20 years. Structural equation analyses showed a direct positive effect of pro-environmental behavior on personal and social well-being as well as place attachment. The latter partially mediated the relationship between pro-environmental behaviors and personal and social well-being. This study is significant in that it provides new data on how pro-environmental behaviors enhance adolescents’ personal and social well-being by potentially ensuring long-term benefits, thereby suggesting that it is important to stimulate, motivate, and recommend these kinds of actions. Full article
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Parental Ethnicity and Adolescent Development: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Dataset
by Lidan Lyu, Danyang Sheng, Yu Chen and Yu Bai
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(5), 3799; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20053799 - 21 Feb 2023
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Adolescent developmental outcomes can vary significantly by differences in ethnicity. While previous studies have examined the impacts of adolescents’ own ethnicity on their development, little research has been conducted about the impacts of the ethnicity of both parents as an important family background [...] Read more.
Adolescent developmental outcomes can vary significantly by differences in ethnicity. While previous studies have examined the impacts of adolescents’ own ethnicity on their development, little research has been conducted about the impacts of the ethnicity of both parents as an important family background factor which is likely to expose adolescents to a variety of growth environments. Using nationally representative data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) surveys, we examine the relationship between parental ethnicity (including both monoethnic families and interethnic families with intermarried Han and ethnic minority groups) and adolescent developmental outcomes, measured by academic performance, cognitive development, and health. Our results show that adolescents with interethnic parents had higher scores in literacy and mathematics tests than those of monoethnic non-Han parents, but their scores were not statistically significantly different from those in monoethnic Han families. Adolescents with interethnic parents also performed better in fluid intelligence assessments and had lower obesity rates than those with monoethnic ethnic minority parents. Our results further suggest that socioeconomic status, parental education, and education expectations partially mediate the association between interethnic parents and adolescent development. Moreover, parental ethnic composition acts as a potential moderator that influences the effects of parents’ non-agricultural work on adolescent development. Our study expands the growing body of empirical evidence on the relationship between parental ethnicity and adolescent development and is conducive to policy recommendations for interventions in the development of adolescents with ethnic minority parents. Full article
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Emotional Warmth and Rejection Parenting Styles of Grandparents/Great Grandparents and the Social–Emotional Development of Grandchildren/Great Grandchildren
by Yang He, Chengfang Liu and Renfu Luo
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(2), 1568; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021568 - 14 Jan 2023
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Parenting styles are crucial in the process of forming social emotions in children. They are also vital for creating effective family policies in order to improve a child’s early development. As such, it is important to acknowledge the enduring association of parenting styles [...] Read more.
Parenting styles are crucial in the process of forming social emotions in children. They are also vital for creating effective family policies in order to improve a child’s early development. As such, it is important to acknowledge the enduring association of parenting styles across generations, as well as their impact on early child development. In this study, the question as to whether the warm and hostile parenting styles of a parent/grandparent mediate the relationships between the emotional warmth and rejection parenting styles of a grandparent/great grandparent, as well as the subsequent social–emotional development of a grandson/great grandson and/or a granddaughter/great granddaughter, was examined. Cross-sectional assessment data from 194 primary caregivers of children between 6 and 36 months were analyzed using mediation analyses. In addition, moderated mediation models were used to test heterogeneity effects. This study found evidence that the warm and hostile parenting styles of a parent/grandparent mediated the associations between the emotional warmth and rejection parenting styles of a grandparent/great grandparent, as well as the subsequent socio-emotional development of a grandchild/great grandchild. Parents/grandparents tend to use a warm parenting style when the child is a boy, thereby resulting in fewer socio-emotional problems. This study provides empirical evidence for the purposes of preventive services to improve caregivers’ parenting styles in the early stages of a child’s development. Researchers and family practitioners should continue to support families with intervention or therapeutic techniques in order to mitigate potential lasting consequences. Full article
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The Association between Video Game Time and Adolescent Mental Health: Evidence from Rural China
by Lili Li, Cody Abbey, Huan Wang, Annli Zhu, Terry Shao, Daisy Dai, Songqing Jin and Scott Rozelle
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(22), 14815; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214815 - 10 Nov 2022
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As digital devices like computers become more widely available in developing countries, there is a growing need to understand how the time that adolescents spend using these devices for recreational purposes such as playing video games is linked with their mental health outcomes. [...] Read more.
As digital devices like computers become more widely available in developing countries, there is a growing need to understand how the time that adolescents spend using these devices for recreational purposes such as playing video games is linked with their mental health outcomes. We measured the amount of time that adolescents in rural China spent playing video games and the association of video game time with their mental health. We collected data from primary and junior high schools in a poor, rural province in northwest China (n = 1603 students) and used the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales (DASS-21) to measure mental health symptoms. The results indicated that the average video game time was about 0.69 h per week. There was a significant association between adolescent video game time and poorer mental health. Each additional hour of playing video games also increased the chance of having moderate or above symptoms. Moreover, boys and non-left-behind children had worse mental health if they played more video games. Our study contributes to literature on the links between recreational screen time and mental health, and it sheds light on an issue addressed by recent government legislation to limit the video game time of minors in China. Full article
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Family Factors Related to Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents
by Xavier Alvarez-Subiela, Carmina Castellano-Tejedor, Francisco Villar-Cabeza, Mar Vila-Grifoll and Diego Palao-Vidal
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(16), 9892; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169892 - 11 Aug 2022
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Objective: This research aims to investigate what type of family patterns (specifically attachment, bonding and family functioning) and stressful life events can trigger or protect adolescents from developing suicidal behavior. Methods: For these purposes, a case-control study (adolescents with suicidal behavior vs. paired [...] Read more.
Objective: This research aims to investigate what type of family patterns (specifically attachment, bonding and family functioning) and stressful life events can trigger or protect adolescents from developing suicidal behavior. Methods: For these purposes, a case-control study (adolescents with suicidal behavior vs. paired adolescents with no suicidal behavior) was conducted with one hundred 12 to 17-year-old adolescents (50 controls, 50 cases, 74% females), assessed between 2018 and 2020. Results: Negligent (p < 0.001) or affection-less control bonding (p < 0.001), insecure attachment (p = 0.001) and stressful life events (p < 0.001) revealed to be significant risk factors for suicidal behavior. On the contrary, parents’ care (p < 0.001) and security (p < 0.001) were revealed as protective factors for suicidal behavior. Conclusions: Considering these results, family interventions and improving coping skills seem to be two essential targets for any suicide prevention intervention in adolescents. Full article
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