Factors Affecting the Social and Emotional Health of Adolescents: A Cross-sectional Study in Vietnam

Overview

Journal Heliyon

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 2023 Apr 6

PMID 37020939

Authors

Thien-Vu Giang

Van-Son Huynh

Tat-Thien Do

My-Hanh Mai

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Abstract

The period of puberty in youth brings various changes in their psychology which can make their social and emotional development unbalanced. The current study aimed to identify the factors affecting the adolescents social-emotional health. We conducted a cross-sectional study on 600 Vietnamese adolescents selected conveniently from the three regions of Vietnam during the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. Factors considered was sociodemographic information and health condition. By using the multiple binary logistic regression, we determined the factors negatively affected adolescents' social-emotional health. In which, religion was found to be the most predictive factor negatively affect the social-emotional health among the adolescents. The individual factors were found to be highly related to the positive experience of social-emotional health. From the findings, we suggest the solutions to prevent the negative experience of social-emotional health among the adolescents from a perspective of practice and develop social-emotional skills.

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