Kokkonen Pinja, Athanasopoulou Christina, Leino-Kilpi Helena, Puukka Pauli, Sakellari Evanthia
Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Department of Occupational Therapy, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Discov Ment Health. 2023 Aug 31;3(1):17. doi: 10.1007/s44192-023-00043-4.
The present study aimed to describe adolescents' self-reported emotional and behavioural strengths and difficulties, as well as their insecurity feeling. In addition, the aim was to examine the association with background characteristics, and explore the association between strengths and difficulties and insecurity factors. The study was conducted among 114 secondary school pupils in Finland, using an online questionnaire. Adolescents' emotional and behavioural difficulties and strengths, were mostly classified as normal. Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire total score as well as internal and external score, were inversely associated with insecurity factors. Girls had significantly higher prosocial behavior compared to boys (P = 0.0007). The age of adolescents was found to be related to their internal difficulties (P = 0.02) and prosocial behavior (P = 0.01). Adolescent's perception of their family relations as poor was associated with external difficulties (P = 0.04). The current results, can be helpful for mental health professionals who work with adolescents in order to implement appropriate and needs specific mental health promotion interventions at individual but also community level. Finally, more research is needed to validate measures for insecurity. This will support mental health professionals in their clinical practice by providing them with all the important factors needed to support adolescents.
本研究旨在描述青少年自我报告的情绪和行为优势与困难，以及他们的不安全感。此外，研究目的还包括检验与背景特征的关联，并探讨优势与困难和不安全感因素之间的关联。该研究在芬兰的114名中学生中进行，采用在线问卷的方式。青少年的情绪和行为困难及优势大多被归类为正常。优势与困难问卷总分以及内部和外部得分与不安全感因素呈负相关。女孩的亲社会行为显著高于男孩（P = 0.0007）。研究发现青少年的年龄与他们的内部困难（P = 0.02）和亲社会行为（P = 0.01）有关。青少年认为自己家庭关系不佳与外部困难有关（P = 0.04）。目前的研究结果，对与青少年打交道的心理健康专业人员可能有所帮助，以便在个体和社区层面实施适当的、针对需求的心理健康促进干预措施。最后，需要更多研究来验证不安全感的测量方法。这将通过为心理健康专业人员提供支持青少年所需的所有重要因素，来支持他们的临床实践。
