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Student well-being generally refers to a state of psychological, intellectual, emotional, physical, social, and spiritual wellness (Adams, Bezner, Drabbs, Zambarano, & Steinhardt, 2000). Taking the person-in-context perspective, student well-being represents whether the student can function effectively to act in response to the demands of the school and whether the school can accommodate to students’ needs and expectations optimally, involving a balance between the strengths of the students for effective functioning and the school resources for healthy growth. Hence, student well-being comprises eudaimonic indicators, such as fully functioning and positive development, and hedonic indicators of subjective well-being, such as presence of positive affect, absence of negative affect, and life satisfaction.
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Indicators of Student Well-Being
In reviewing the literature on student well-being, different studies have their own definitions of student well-being and utilize...
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Sun, R.C.F., Shek, D.T.L. (2014). Well-Being, Student. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_2891
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