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Boarding School Experience, Academic Performance, and Personality Development among Chinese Adolescents in Urban Area
- 1 Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, The US
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Abstract
Previous research found that boarding students are more likely to experience higher levels of mental problems such as eating disorders, depression, and anxiety. As personalities are highly associated with mental problems, this research examined if boarding school experience before adulthood was related to an individual's personality development, which could probably contribute to the consequence that boarding students have more mental problems in early adulthood. Participants (N = 361), whose age was between 18 to 24 years old, conducted a personality test and reported boarding school experience, including whether they had boarding school experience, the length of boarding school experience before 18 years old, and the starting age of attending boarding schools, and academic performance in high school. The results of this research indicated that the agreeableness, openness and consciousness of given gender was impact by boarding school experience. It also indicated the potential negative mental consequences of attending boarding school before adulthood, which can help educators in boarding schools to improve mental health care for students to mitigate the negative impact of the boarding school experience.
Keywords
boarding school, personality, adolescents mental health
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Zhang,L. (2023). Boarding School Experience, Academic Performance, and Personality Development among Chinese Adolescents in Urban Area. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,6,292-298.
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