Well-Being Perception during COVID-19 Pandemic in Healthy Adolescents: From the Avatar Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants and Study Design
2.2. Ethics
2.3. Procedures
2.4. AVATAR Approach
- Lifestyle habits (L): ΣL → ΩL
- Social context (S): ΣS → ΩS
- Emotional status (E): ΣE → ΩE
- Mental skills (MS): → Σ MS Ω MS
2.5. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Acute Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Different Psychosocial Variables Composing the PWBI
3.2. Personalized Well-Being Index and Health-Related Well-Being Components
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | BC (n = 1019) | LP (n = 1019) | p-Value | |
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Lifestyle habits | Physical wellbeing | 46.95 ± 6.67 | 43.72 ± 6.97 | <0.001 |
Autonomy | 47.12 ± 9.91 | 42.36 ± 8.61 | <0.001 | |
KIDMED | 5.99 ± 2.6 | 6.46 ± 2.48 | <0.001 | |
PAQ-C | 2.65 ± 0.69 | 2.65 ± 0.76 | 0.797 | |
Financial resources | 51.08 ± 9.32 | 50.59 ± 10.37 | 0.095 | |
Emotional status | Psychological wellbeing | 50.23 ± 9.37 | 48.87 ± 9.83 | <0.001 |
Mood/Emotion | 48.62 ± 9.9 | 48.03 ± 9.82 | <0.05 | |
Self-perception | 52.92 ± 10.62 | 52.89 ± 11.19 | 0.908 | |
Social context | Parent relationship | 51.15 ± 9.98 | 50.78 ± 10.13 | 0.215 |
Peers | 50.58 ± 10.12 | 41.49 ± 12.67 | <0.001 | |
School environment | 49.95 ± 8.67 | 50.38 ± 8.71 | 0.089 | |
Social acceptance (Bullying) | 50.28 ± 10.41 | 52.41 ± 9.33 | <0.001 | |
Mental skills | School performance-Language and Literature | 37.04 ± 3.68 | 33.6 ± 4.1 | <0.001 |
School performance-Science | 34.51 ± 4.3 | 37.93 ± 3.84 | <0.001 | |
School performance- Language acquisition | 26.17 ± 3.05 | 23.94 ± 3.26 | <0.001 | |
School performance- Artistic and creativity | 23.27 ± 3.47 | 25.54 ± 3 | <0.001 |
Variables | BC (n = 1019) | LP (n = 1019) | p-Value |
---|---|---|---|
Lifestyle habits | 13.75 ± 2.88 | 11.93 ± 3.31 | <0.001 |
Emotional status | 19.54 ± 3.96 | 18.93 ± 4.94 | <0.001 |
Social context | 21.77 ± 3.72 | 20.09 ± 4.89 | <0.001 |
Mental skills | 0.3 ± 0.18 | 0.4 ± 0.37 | <0.001 |
Variables | BC (n = 1019) | LP (n = 1019) | p-Value |
---|---|---|---|
Lifestyle habits | 25% | 23% | <0.001 |
Emotional status | 35% | 37% | <0.001 |
Social context | 40% | 39% | <0.001 |
Mental skills | 0% | 1% | <0.001 |
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Mastorci, F.; Bastiani, L.; Trivellini, G.; Doveri, C.; Casu, A.; Pozzi, M.; Marinaro, I.; Vassalle, C.; Pingitore, A. Well-Being Perception during COVID-19 Pandemic in Healthy Adolescents: From the Avatar Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 6388. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126388
Mastorci F, Bastiani L, Trivellini G, Doveri C, Casu A, Pozzi M, Marinaro I, Vassalle C, Pingitore A. Well-Being Perception during COVID-19 Pandemic in Healthy Adolescents: From the Avatar Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(12):6388. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126388
Chicago/Turabian StyleMastorci, Francesca, Luca Bastiani, Gabriele Trivellini, Cristina Doveri, Anselmo Casu, Marta Pozzi, Irene Marinaro, Cristina Vassalle, and Alessandro Pingitore. 2021. "Well-Being Perception during COVID-19 Pandemic in Healthy Adolescents: From the Avatar Study" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 12: 6388. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126388