Classified "A" by ANVUR in the fields 11/D1, 11/D2 Scientific in the field 14.
Abstract:
This article presents the results of a questionnaire survey on the conditions of well-being and discomfort at school, in which 1389 students from a high school in a large northern Italian city took part. The survey instrument used is the result of a participatory process involving different components of the school community together with external researchers. The construction process started from a previous instrument developed by a group of students and took into account both models available in the research literature and the results of an exploratory study conducted through focus groups. The factor and scale analyses presented in this study show a multidimensional structure of the construct of well-being that fits the data collected and is broadly consistent with a number of recent studies in the same field. In particular, the proposed model considers ten dimensions of well-being in school, defined as the adequacy and safety of physical spaces, the feeling of protection from detrimental behaviour by teachers or other students, information, voice and participation, relationship with teachers, teaching methods, formative function of assessment, relationship with peers, and satisfaction with the choice of course and institution. Finally, some results of the analysis of significant differences between the groups according to school year, the occurrence of subject resits, and gender identity are presented.
