After the bell : adolescents' organised leisure-time activities and well-being in the context of social and socioeconomic inequalities

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dc.contributor.authorBadura, Petr
dc.contributor.authorHamrik, Zdenek
dc.contributor.authorDierckens, Maxim
dc.contributor.authorGobiņa, Inese
dc.contributor.authorMalinowska-Cieślik, Marta
dc.contributor.authorFurstova, Jana
dc.contributor.authorKopcakova, Jaroslava
dc.contributor.authorPickett, William
dc.contributor.institutionInstitute of Public Health
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Public Health and Epidemiology
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-18T07:10:01Z
dc.date.available2021-05-18T07:10:01Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-10
dc.descriptionFunding Information: Funding The work was supported by the grant of the Czech Science Foundation ’Leisure time in the context of the healthy development of school-aged children’ (GA18-24977S), by the European Regional Development Fund Project ’Effective Use of Social Research Studies for Practice’ (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_025/0007294 ) and by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under Contract No. APVV-18–0070. Publisher Copyright: ©
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: Previous research has linked adolescents' participation in organised leisure-time activities (OLTAs) to better health and well-being. It remains unclear whether these associations can be observed consistently across social and socioeconomic strata and countries. METHODS: The present study used nine nationally representative samples of adolescents aged 11, 13 and 15 years (total n=55 429) from the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey from Europe and Canada. Regression models with mixed effects to account for nested nature of data were applied to estimate: (1) the associations of social and socioeconomic factors with OLTA participation; (2) strengths of the associations between breadth and pattern of OLTA participation with health and well-being indicators, after adjustment for the social and socioeconomic factors. RESULTS: Rates of OLTA participation varied by age, sex and country of adolescents. Participants from lower socioeconomic classes and non-nuclear families were less likely to participate in OLTAs across each of the nine countries. Moreover, breadth of OLTA participation was associated with higher well-being independent of socioeconomic status or family structure. All of the participation patterns were associated with higher life satisfaction, but sports (either alone or in combination with a non-sport OLTA) were also associated with fewer psychological complaints and excellent self-rated health. CONCLUSION: Adolescents' engagement in OLTAs was associated with adolescents' subjective well-being regardless of country, age, sex and variance in social and socioeconomic factors. Policies aimed at increasing adolescents' subjective well-being and OLTA participation should focus on adolescents from low socioeconomic classes and non-nuclear families.en
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dc.identifier.citationBadura, P, Hamrik, Z, Dierckens, M, Gobiņa, I, Malinowska-Cieślik, M, Furstova, J, Kopcakova, J & Pickett, W 2021, 'After the bell : adolescents' organised leisure-time activities and well-being in the context of social and socioeconomic inequalities', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 75, no. 7, pp. 628-636. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-215319
dc.identifier.doi10.1136/jech-2020-215319
dc.identifier.issn0143-005X
dc.identifier.otherMendeley: 93a3873e-f424-314b-85c9-51a946dcda08
dc.identifier.otherunpaywall: 10.1136/jech-2020-215319
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/4345
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Epidemiology and Community Health
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject3.3 Health sciences
dc.subject1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database
dc.titleAfter the bell : adolescents' organised leisure-time activities and well-being in the context of social and socioeconomic inequalitiesen
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