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  • Anxiety symptoms as predictors of adolescent academic achievement : A narrative review of longitudinal research 
    Saarelma, Joel (2023)
    Goals: Anxiety symptoms during adolescence are highly prevalent and correlate with poor academic outcomes. Despite the effects reported in prior review literature being negative on average, the results of different studies have great heterogeneity, leaving room for deeper investigation of the direction and causality of the effects between anxiety and academic achievement. This narrative review aims to synthesize the findings of recent longitudinal studies on the subject. Methods: A narrative review of seven articles on several different measures of anxiety as predictors of academic achievement during adolescence, measured in grades, education continuity and graduation. Results: Several different measures of anxiety symptoms, including social anxiety, PTSD, test anxiety, and generalized anxiety symptoms, are predictive of poor academic grades in adolescence, even when other mental health problems are controlled for. Anxiety is linked to a lower chance of college graduation but there may be no independent effect over that of depression. There appear to be cascading, long-term links between different anxiety symptoms and academic outcomes, some of them bi-directional, making longitudinal designs and repeated measures of multiple variables recommendable for future research. Most effects appear to be gender-non-specific, but effect strengths do seem to vary between groups of low and high anxiety, hinting at a possibly curvilinear relationship worth investigating.
  • Sosiaalisen median positiiviset ja negatiiviset vaikutukset nuorten hyvinvointiin 
    Pekkala, Jutta (2021)
    Aims. Social media is present in our everyday life. It is actively used both at work and when we have free time. The consequences of use of social media, especially to adolescents’ wellbeing, have been the subject of interest among researchers. The researchers have received evidence for the negative impacts as well as for positive impacts relating to the use of social media among adolescents. There seems to be some kind of division at the field regarding whether the use of social media among adolescents should be viewed as a negative factor for their wellbeing. The purpose of this review was to explore the latest information and research on the use of social media and its positive and negative impacts on adolescents’ wellbeing as well as to consider which topics should be researched more in the future. Methods. The literature used for this review was retrieved from the databases of PubMed and Helka-library. The information search was conducted in English and search terms used were social media, adolescent, wellbeing, and mental health. The search terms were used with different inflections and different word combinations. The aim was to select as recent and new reviews and research as possible. Results and conclusions. Reviewed research found that the use of social media has connection with depression, self-harm, eating disorders and anxiety. Some research also found that adolescents can have addiction to social media. In some research social media was viewed in more positive light e.g., when it was used to relieve stress, to relax and to maintain social relationships. In addition, adolescents felt that social media is a good source of information and a place where one may receive peer support. A clear conclusion on whether the use of social media has only positive or negative impacts cannot be made because it seems to have both. The way social media affects to adolescents’ wellbeing may depend on e.g., one’s individual characteristics, for the time spent on using social media and for what one is doing there.

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