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Satisfaction with school and sexual orientation: Icelandic urban and rural adolescent populations

Sigrun Sveinbjornsdottir, Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson, Arsaell Mar Arnarson

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Abstract

The aim is to compare self-assessed school satisfaction of three groups within two populations of Year 10 students in Iceland. They were evaluated at two separate administrations, the former in year 2010 (age 14 to 18 years, M=15.98, SD=0.25), and the latter in year 2014 (age 14 to 18 years, M=16.0, SD=0.19). The groups are classified according to romantic and/or sexual attraction and/or sexual activity and are identified as: (a) unknown, (b) heterosexual, and, (c) non- heterosexual. Data derived from two sets of survey collections (2010 and 2014) from the Icelandic part of the Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC), initiated by the World Health organization (WHO) ... Participation for both implementations was between 80 and 90% of the whole cohorts, with 91% boys and 94% girls identified as heterosexual year 2010 and 90% of boys and 89% of girls identified as heterosexual year 2014. School satisfaction is compared across the three groups in both populations (2010 and 2014). Two questions included in the 2014 survey only, further explaining differences between the three identified groups, one referring to students' attitudes towards their teachers and the other concerning class periods. Answers to both questions are rated on a 5 point Likert scale.
Original languageEnglish
Pages111-111
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventNCRR 2016: 4th Nordic Conference for Rural Research: Crisis and resilience - Akureyri, Iceland
Duration: 22 May 201624 May 2016

Conference

ConferenceNCRR 2016: 4th Nordic Conference for Rural Research: Crisis and resilience
CityAkureyri, Iceland
Period22/05/1624/05/16

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology
  • Culture, Gender, Sexuality
  • Educational Psychology

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