TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic achievement and internalizing problems in primary and secondary school students in Portugal
AU - Veríssimo, Lurdes
AU - Dias, Pedro
AU - Santos, Elodie
AU - Ortigão, Sofia
N1 - Funding Information:
2- In Portugal, the compulsory education system is structured as follows: 1st Cycle (1st to 4th grades) of Primary Education (4 years, 6-9 years old); 2nd Cycle (5th and 6th grades) of Primary Education (2 years, 10-11 years old); 3rd Cycle (7th to 9th grades) of Primary Education (3 years, 12-14 years old); Secondary Education (3 years, 15-17 years old). 3- Support from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia that financed the research project “Avaliação da psicopatologia em crianças e adolescentes: aferição da Bateria ASEBA” (FCT – PTDC/PSI-PCL/105489/2008).
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Depression, somatic complaints), assessed by different informants (parents, teachers and young people), according to the level of academic achievement in primary and secondary school students. For this, a stratified sample representative of the Portuguese population comprised of 1510 students, between the ages of 11 and 18 years. From the set of Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment battery tests validated for the Portuguese population the Child Behavior Checklist 6-18, the Youth Self-Report 11-18 and the Teacher Report Form 6-18 were used. In general, the results show that students with low academic achievement have more internalizing problems than students with average and/or high academic achievement. However, in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades, from the perspective of the young people themselves, students with high level of academic achievement have higher levels of anxiety/depression, in comparison to students with low academic achievement. These results demonstrate that, apart from the students with low academic achievement being at risk and vulnerable to internalizing problems, it is also necessary to pay special attention to students with high academic achievement. These findings resulted in practical implications relevant to school contexts, more precisely when considering the correlation between academic achievement and psychological well-being.
AB - Depression, somatic complaints), assessed by different informants (parents, teachers and young people), according to the level of academic achievement in primary and secondary school students. For this, a stratified sample representative of the Portuguese population comprised of 1510 students, between the ages of 11 and 18 years. From the set of Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment battery tests validated for the Portuguese population the Child Behavior Checklist 6-18, the Youth Self-Report 11-18 and the Teacher Report Form 6-18 were used. In general, the results show that students with low academic achievement have more internalizing problems than students with average and/or high academic achievement. However, in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades, from the perspective of the young people themselves, students with high level of academic achievement have higher levels of anxiety/depression, in comparison to students with low academic achievement. These results demonstrate that, apart from the students with low academic achievement being at risk and vulnerable to internalizing problems, it is also necessary to pay special attention to students with high academic achievement. These findings resulted in practical implications relevant to school contexts, more precisely when considering the correlation between academic achievement and psychological well-being.
KW - Academic achievement
KW - Anxiety
KW - Depression
KW - Internalizing problems
KW - Psychological well-being
KW - Realização acadêmica
KW - Bem-estar psicológico
KW - Problemas de internalização
KW - Depressão
KW - Ansiedade
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U2 - 10.1590/S1678-4634202046218667
DO - 10.1590/S1678-4634202046218667
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089772884
SN - 1517-9702
VL - 46
JO - Educação e Pesquisa
JF - Educação e Pesquisa
M1 - e218667
ER -