Wellbeing and Education

Research papers related to ISQOLS SIG Education And Youth

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Wellbeing moves into the classroom

This week’s papers treat wellbeing less as a side service and more as something that can be addressed within ordinary education settings: professional learning, first-year student experiences, classroom presentations, physical activity, and early play screening. A common practical theme is that support is more plausible when it fits the setting and the people using it.

Teacher professional learning is linked to self-efficacy and wellbeing when it matches teachers’ needs.
Student distress can blend academic pressure with money worries, belonging, family expectations, and social isolation.
Wellbeing efforts are being studied in everyday settings: classrooms, school-day activity, and early-childhood play screening.

Support teachers by fitting the work

Professional learning supports teacher well-being through needs-supplies fit and control-value processes

Using TALIS 2024 data from France and Australia, this paper links continuous professional learning to teacher self-efficacy and wellbeing, with effects depending on whether support fits teachers’ needs.

Students navigating pressure and belonging

Mind Over Marks: Emotional Well-Being and Academic Success Among First-Generation University Students in Higher Education

This qualitative study examines how first-generation university students connect emotional wellbeing with academic success amid impostor syndrome, anxiety, financial strain, family expectations, lack of belonging, and social isolation.

Navigating the Unknown: A Sensemaking Inquiry into the Mental Health Experiences of First-Year University Students at a Regional University in Fiji

This Fiji study foregrounds how first-year students make sense of emotional, social, academic, and financial challenges during the transition to university.

Digital therapeutics for stress in health science students at under-resourced universities: A narrative review

This narrative review examines digital therapeutics as scalable stress-management support for health science students at under-resourced South African universities.

Wellbeing built into daily education

Reducing Emotional Burden Carried by Neurodivergent Students in School: Perspectives From Students and School Staff.

By bringing together neurodivergent students and school staff, this study examines how school environments contribute to emotional burden and how that burden might be managed or reduced.

Contextualizing Mental Health Support in Engineering Education: Evaluating a Brief Classroom-Based Presentation

This case study evaluates a brief classroom-based mental health presentation tailored to engineering students’ context, including norms around workload, self-reliance, and academic rigor.

Physical Activity Before, During, and After the School Day and Its Impact on Positive Psychological Variables: A Systematic Review and Practical Guide

This systematic review asks how physical activity before, during, or after school affects psychological wellbeing, resilience, subjective vitality, and mental toughness in children and adolescents.

Screening Preschoolers’ Play and Participation in Early Childhood Education and Care Services: A Feasibility Study

This feasibility study evaluates an early-childhood play and participation screening service designed to identify children who may need additional support.

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