Browsing by Author "Pylvänen, Laura"

Aims. The aim of this study was to examine coping challenges and school exhaustion in elementary children and also how much home, self-regulation and well-being estimate student burnout. Idea is also examine wheter there are any differences between gender in field of student burnout. Coping challenges and school exhaustion are a phenomenon that affects more and more young children as well as young people. Previous research has shown that the causes of coping challenges are due to the poor atmosphere in school, the social environment and the student own lack of motivation. Previous studies have also shown that school exhaustion can lead to depression and educational exclusion. Methods. The data was collected with questionnaires as a part of #newschool -project during fall 2019. The participants (N = 212) were 11–12-years-old students from elementary schools in southern Finland. Coping was measured with a 10–point questionnaire in which children were allowed to assess their own coping. Welfare was asked using a 10–item questionnaire that measures subjective well-being. Self-regulation was measured with six-point statements and home-affairs were measured with five-point statements. I analysed how children cope at school by looking at the means and variances of responses. In addition, I used regression analysis to analyse how well-being, self-regulation and home affairs explain coping in school. Finally, I used the t-test to compare gender differences in coping at school. Results and conclusions. Most sixth graders felt that they were coping well or moderately at school. However, about 15 % of sixth graders experienced some degree of school burnout or school exhaustion. The better the children feel their well-being is, the better they cope with school. Well-being was the only background variable that explained coping in school in a statistically significant way. According to the results of the dissertation, there were no differences between boys and girls in coping at school. The results were largely in line with previous results. The results suggest that more and more young people are experiencing intolerance at school as well as school exhaustion. The results also showed that children’s well-being plays a major role in coping at school. From this it can be concluded that investing in the well-being of children results in happy and enthusiastic learners, as well as well-being adults in the future.