Trajectories of students' well-being in secondary education in Germany and differences by social background.
Background Subjective well-being (SWB) is an important indicator of quality of life, but prior research mostly analyzed adolescents' subjective well-being in cross-sectional studies. There is a lack of studies examining changes in subjective well-being throughout adolescence using longitudinal panel...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Public Health Vol. 29; no. 5; pp. 960 - 966 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2019
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