Martin Guhn

Validity of the Middle Years Development Instrument for Population Monitoring of Student Wellbeing in Australian School Children

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 21-05-2018

DOI: 10.1007/S12187-018-9562-3

Early Development Instrument

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

Date: 2014

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3439

Associations between School Readiness and Student Wellbeing: A Six-Year Follow Up Study

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 06-08-2020

DOI: 10.1007/S12187-020-09760-6

Abstract: It is well established that children’s school readiness is associated with their later academic achievement, but less is known about whether school readiness is also associated with other measures of school success, such as students’ social and emotional wellbeing. While some previous research has shown a link between early social and emotional development and student wellbeing, results are mixed and the strength of these relationships vary depending on whether data is based on child, teachers or parents ratings and which specific student wellbeing outcomes are measured. The present study explored the association between teacher-rated school readiness (M age = 5.6 years) across five developmental domains (physical, social, emotional, language and cognitive, and communication and general knowledge) and four aspects of student wellbeing (life satisfaction, optimism, sadness and worries) in Grade 6 (M age = 11.9 years) in a s le of 3906 Australian children. After adjustment for background child and family-level factors, children’s early physical, social and emotional development were associated with all four wellbeing outcomes in Grade 6, but early language and cognitive skills and communication and general knowledge skills were only associated with internalising behaviours (sadness and worries). Mechanisms through which these different aspects of development might influence later wellbeing are discussed, as well as ways that schools and governments can support students’ social and emotional wellbeing.

International research utilizing the Early Development Instrument (EDI) as a measure of early child development: Introduction to the Special Issue

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 2016

DOI: 10.1016/J.ECRESQ.2015.12.007

University Of British Columbia

Location: Canada

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Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200100571

Start Date: 06-2020

End Date: 12-2024

Amount: $469,871.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP130100535

Start Date: 04-2014

End Date: 12-2017

Amount: $223,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council