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The Relations between Incivility and Adolescent Health and Wellbeing

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal

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Title The Relations between Incivility and Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
 
Creator Volk, Anthony A
Marini, Zopito A
Dane, Andrew V
 
Subject Psychology; Education; Health
Incivility; Civility; Adolescents; Health; Wellbeing; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
civility; wellbeing; adolescence
 
Description Incivility is a rapidly growing field of study in a number of academic domains. In workplace studies, it is clear that incivility is associated with a hostile and impoverished working environment. In post-secondary settings, it is equally associated with negative outcomes such as diminished class productivity, enjoyment, and participation. More recently, research has turned to studying incivility amongst younger adolescents. We continue this line of research by studying the link between the perpetration of incivility and adolescent health and wellbeing. Specifically, we examined whether participation in incivility would be correlated with indices of social, emotional, and mental health as measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). As predicted, we found significant correlations with incivility and all five dimensions of the SDQ. A hierarchical linear regression revealed older age, less prosocial behavior, and emotional and conduct problems to be significant multivariate predictors of incivility perpetration. Implications for the health and wellbeing of school-aged adolescents are discussed. We further discuss that the results are largely consistent with a conceptualization of incivility as a lower-intensity antisocial behavior on the same continuum as higher intensity behaviors like bullying, characterized by goal-directed behavior that disregards and disrespects the rights and welfare of others.
 
Publisher Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
 
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Date 2016-09-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/2224
10.14738/assrj.39.2224
 
Source Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal; Vol 3, No 9 (2016): Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
10.14738/assrj.39.2016
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ASSRJ/article/view/2224/pdf
 
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