Abstract
The Department of Education and Skills in Ireland has introduced well-being as a subject in secondary schools in September 2017. This positive development also serves to highlight the vast amount of research required about student well-being in Ireland. A correlational analysis was conducted to investigate the effects of physical activity on well-being. Transition-year students were recruited on a voluntary basis to take part in this research. Physical activity was found to be positively correlated with the three different measures of well-being used. The strongest correlation was found to be physical activity and the Adolescent Mental Health Continuum Short Form (A/MHC-SF) and had a Pearson product-moment correlation of .340. These research findings form a valuable contribution to our understanding of well-being among adolescent students in Ireland. The findings from this research project may be used to shape the future of well-being in education.
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O'Brien, Michael
(2018)
"A Correlational Study into the Effects of Physical Activity on Subjective Well-being Among Transition-Year Students in Ireland,"
Irish Journal of Academic Practice:
Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
doi:10.21427/D79Z45
Available at:
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijap/vol7/iss1/5
DOI
10.21427/D79Z45