The impact of personal background and school contextual factors on academic competence and mental health functioning across the primary-secondary school transition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Vaz, Sharmila ^a   Parsons, Richard ^a,b   Falkmer, Torbjörn ^a,c,d   Passmore, Anne Elizabeth ^a   Falkmer, Marita ^a,e  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e School of Education and Communication CHILD Programme Institution of Disability Research Jönkö Ping University   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISABLED STUDENT; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE SCHOOL; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRANSITION FROM PRIMARY TO SECONDARY SCHOOL; ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS;

EID: 84897552684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089874     Document Type: Article

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