This study examined the relationships between social loneliness, emotional anxiety and peer victimisation among 390 seventh- through ninth-grade secondary students. Data were collected in fall spring of school year. Path analyses revealed that feelings loneliness (both emotional) increased adolescents' experiences, however was associated with higher levels than seventh eighth grade. Early experiences significantly predicted bullying victimisation. Implications for research intervention...

The Multisource Assessment of Social Competence Scale was developed, based on the School Behavior and examined to test factor pattern consistency ratings self, peers, teachers, parents. findings confirmatory analysis supported a four-factor solution consistent with two main dimensions (prosocial antisocial), each divided into subdimensions (cooperating skills, empathy, impulsivity, disruptiveness). resultant model cross-validated new sample. fit indexes implied that patterns were invariant...

Maternal prenatal symptoms of depression and anxiety have been suggested to impose differential effects on later offspring development, depending their characteristics, such as timing, intensity persistence. Paternal less investigated. While knowledge these trajectory characteristics is essential for improved comprehension stress, prospective studies including both expecting parents scarce. We aim at identifying comparing the trajectories depressive in a pregnancy cohort design. The sample...

Background Loneliness in childhood has a wide range of negative consequences for well‐being and mental health later life. This study reports time‐trends children's loneliness the association between psychiatric symptoms over 24‐year period. Methods Information on 3,749 eight‐year‐old Finnish‐speaking children born 1981, 1991, 1997, 2004 was gathered at four time points from area covered by Turku University Hospital southwest Finland. The actual numbers participants these were 986 (1989), 891...

Abstract This longitudinal study ( N = 1078, 46% boys; 54% girls) examined profiles of loneliness and ostracism during adolescence their consequences antecedents. Longitudinal latent analyses identified four distinct profiles: (1) High emotional (25%), increasing social (15%), peer exclusion high impact (9%) No problems (51%). Subsequent internalizing were typical for the profile externalizing profiles. Furthermore, effortful control, prosocial skills, relationship quality with parents...

The aim of this study was to examine the existence intergenerational transmission loneliness between parents and children, including an examination its stability gender differences. consisted evaluation in mothers (n= 834), fathers 661) their 10-year-old children 981). Parent's self-reported measured once, children's social emotional were assessed at three time-points. analysis indicated average loneliness, especially loneliness. Boys found experience more than girls. Structural equation...

This study examines the relationship between social competence and psychological well-being of adolescents. The role academic learning disabilities with was also studied. sample (n = 412; 207 girls 205 boys), one complete age group (mean 15.5 years), followed from last year comprehensive school to their first, second third secondary education in a Finnish city. Psychological is related increased cooperation skills decreased levels impulsivity disruptiveness. Furthermore, predict well-being,...

Abstract Introduction This study explored the effects of mothers' and fathers' prenatal postnatal depressive symptoms marital distress on breastfeeding initiation exclusive ( EBF ) duration. Material methods was a prospective follow‐up cohort sample 873 families participating to an intensive longitudinal Steps Healthy Development Well‐being Children (The STEPS study) in Southwestern Finland. The were evaluated by Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale Revised Dyadic Adjustment at 20th...

Objective To examine the longitudinal stability, interdependence, and intergenerational transmission of social emotional loneliness among boys girls. Background The benefits a two‐dimensional measurement distinguishing between are established; however, understanding their possible developmental interdependence over time is lacking. Boys have been shown to experience more loneliness, but gender‐specific differences in remain scarcely mapped. Method Two‐dimensional experiences were collected...

Objectives Loneliness and social isolation both increase mortality are likely to affect health via several pathways. However, information on the potential pathways remains scarce. We investigated associations between loneliness, isolation, mortality, possible mechanisms underlying these connections.Methods The analyzed data comprised a prospective population-based cohort of Finnish men (42–61 years at baseline, n = 2588) who were followed up for an average 23.2 years. Mortality obtained from...

There is growing interest in loneliness and its various adverse effects on mental physical health. While depression one of the health associated with loneliness, there have been some limitations previous studies: 1) Research has mostly carried out either depressed patient samples or general population depressive symptoms as an outcome, 2) follow-up times rather short, 3) mechanisms through which associates are still unclear.We examined association between incident possible underlying this a...

Background The interrelation between mothers' parental self‐efficacy ( PSE ) and their school‐aged children's well‐being has been repeatedly proved. lack of research in this area situates mainly on the absence fathers, non‐existent family‐level studies, paucity independent evaluators, use global estimates. Aims We aimed to qualitatively identify different subgroups mothers, couples based factors. Furthermore, we study interrelations these school‐related social competence evaluated by...

Loneliness is an important public health challenge for all ages. This study reports time trends of loneliness among adolescents over a 12-year period and analyses the strength associations between loneliness, complaints, medicine use.Data were derived from cross-sectional Finnish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children conducted 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018. The population based on random sample schools with 20,444 participants aged 11-15 years. analysed Mantel-Haenszel test, was evaluated by...

The aim is to present the psychometric properties of a multisource scale measuring children’s and adolescents’ self-, peer-, teacher-evaluated social competence and, further, study whether these evaluations predict later psychosocial ill-being consisting loneliness, anxiety, phobia. Sample 1 consisted 318 Finnish elementary school children, who in beginning were fourth graders (approximately 10 years old). 2 191 adolescents seventh 13 old) lower secondary school. self, peer teacher ratings...

Our aim was to study the inter‐correlations and developmental pathways of mothers' fathers' social emotional loneliness during pregnancy (20th week), infancy (child aged 8 months), early childhood 18 months). Moreover, we aimed whether mothers fathers who have different profiles (identified by latent growth curve mixture models) differ in their experiences marital dissatisfaction ( RDAS ), phobia SPIN ) depression BDI pregnancy. Both were highly stable, within individuals these factors...

Background An association between maternal prenatal stress and increased rates of respiratory tract infections in the offspring has been described earlier. Data regarding father's role is lacking. In this study our aim was to evaluate, whether mothers' fathers' depressive symptoms loneliness during pregnancy predict higher offspring. Methods longitudinal cohort we gathered information on parental psychological risk gestational week 20 using BDI-II UCLA scale questionnaires for parents 929...

Background The bidirectional relationship between health behavior and subjective well-being has previously been studied sparsely, mainly for individual behaviors regression models. In the present study, we deepen this knowledge focusing on four principal using structural equation modeling with selected covariates. Methods follow-up data (n = 11,804) was derived from a population-based random sample of working-age Finns two waves (2003 2012) Health Social Support (HeSSup) postal survey....

Digital transformation has influenced all areas of adolescents' lives, including the ways adolescents maintain friendships. Interpersonal communication is one most common activities while online. Online may provide with opportunities to expand their social contacts, but these encounters can be risky, especially when unknown people on internet. This study examined associations between different forms online behavior and well-being. Data were collected from Finnish as part Health Behavior in...

This study aimed to analyze the factor structure of Coleman and Karraker's (2003) Self‐Efficacy Parenting Task Index Toddlers Scale, which assesses mothers' fathers' parental self‐efficacy ( PSE ) at child ages 1.5 3 years. A 5‐factor model consisting Presence, Emotional Support, Routines, Playing, Teaching was found have good measurement validity. All dimensions were least moderately stable between Except for mothers evaluated their stronger than did fathers. Overall, parents while years...