Will adolescents with Neurodevelop-mental difficulties differ in mental well-being and mental health prob-lems in relation to Other disabilities?
Författare: Nida Rehman
Abstract:
Purpose: Neurodevelopmental difficulties are correlated with lower mental well-being and more mental health problems. Issues in social relations such as bullying are a prominent risk factor in a social setting of high school, has also been associated with the status of disability. This thesis investigated the relation between mental health problems, mental well-being, and bullying in adolescents with self-reported neurode-velopmental difficulties and compared these with adolescents with Other disabilities.
Materials and methods: Data from a Swedish longitudinal survey study (LoRDIA) was used. Mental health problems were measured through emotional and conduct problems scales of SDQ, mental well-being was measured with MHC-SF, and a bully-ing questionnaire was used.
Results: Adolescents with NDD experience more bullying victimization and perpetra-tion than adolescents with Other disabilities such as physical disability and autoim-mune diseases. Significant association to bullying perpetration was found in NDD ado-lescents. Adolescents with Other disabilities indicated high mental well-being com-pared to NDD. While gender predicts high mental well-being, disability and emotional problems have a negative relation with it.
Conclusion: Adolescents with NDD report more bullying victimization and perpetra-tion experiences in comparison to adolescents with Other disabilities. Emotional prob-lems have an inverse relation for predicting high mental well-being for adolescents with NDD and Other disabilities.
