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Modin, Bitte; Ostberg, Viveca; Toivanen, Susanna; Sundell, Knut – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
This study explores the psychosocial working conditions of 7930 Swedish 9th grade students, distributed over 475 classes and 130 schools, in relation to their subjective health using multilevel modeling. At the individual level, students with "strained" working conditions in school (i.e. those experiencing a high level of demands in…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Grade 9, Student Attitudes
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Modin, Bitte; Ostberg, Viveca; Almquist, Ylva – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2011
This study examined the extent to which sixth grade peer status could predict anxiety and/or depression in 5,242 women and 5,004 men who were born in 1953 and whose hospital records were followed up from 1973-2003. The data used was the Stockholm Birth Cohort Study. While no association could be established for men, results indicated that women…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Children, Grade 9
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Modin, Bitte; Ostberg, Viveca – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2009
This study examined the importance of aspects of the school climate for adolescents' psychosomatic health using multilevel modelling. Analyses were based on 18,571 ninth-grade students distributed over 1,026 classes and 284 schools in the greater Stockholm area in 2004 and 2006. Both individual- and contextual-level associations between aspects of…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Environment