Alienation and Health in Adolescents: An Original Evaluation Tool - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.5 No.1, January 2018

Alienation and Health in Adolescents: An Original Evaluation Tool ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104183 699 Downloads 2,771 Views Citations

Author(s)

Gina Tomé^*, Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Inês Camacho, Celeste Simões, Marta Reis, Paulo Gomes

Affiliation(s)

FMH/University of Lisbon, ISAMB/University of Lisbon, WJCR/ISPA, Lisbon, Portugal.

ABSTRACT

The present work aims to construct and validate a tool enabling to evaluate alienation in Portuguese adolescents. Participants were a group of adolescents that participated in the Portuguese survey of the European study Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC). For this study, only adolescents from the 8^th and 10^th grades were included in the sample, comprising 3869 students. The results show a good adequacy of the confirmatory factorial analysis (CFA) model. This model revealed 3 subscales proposals—Demotivation, Isolation and Instability, and a full scale—Total Alienation. When analyzed in relation to other variables (gender, grade, wellbeing indicator and risk indicator), the alienation subscales showed an association between alienation and risk. These results are consistent with other studies about alienation which emphasizes that having good social relationships is associated with higher levels of wellbeing and quality of life and less involvement in risk behaviours by young people.

KEYWORDS

Adolescents, Alienation, Wellbeing, Risk

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Tomé, G. , de Matos, M. , Camacho, I. , Simões, C. , Reis, M. and Gomes, P. (2018) Alienation and Health in Adolescents: An Original Evaluation Tool. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-13. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104183.

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