ABSTRACT

Previous research has shown that there is a small but significant cumulative private school advantage in terms of educational attainment in Britain. However, research on how school type influences non-educational outcomes is more scarcer. This paper aims to identify the extent to which school type influences satisfaction with life and mental health from adolescence to early adulthood. Using Next Steps, a longitudinal study of young people in England born in 1989/90, the authors use multiple variable regression analyses to address the research questions. They find that for this cohort there is no evidence of a difference for mental health and life satisfaction by school type for either men or women in adolescence or early adulthood.

摘要

先前的研究表明，就英国的教育程度而言，私立学校的累积优势很小但很显着。然而，关于学校类型如何影响非教育成果的研究却更少。本文旨在确定学校类型在多大程度上影响从青春期到成年早期的生活满意度和心理健康。使用 Next Steps（一项针对 1989/90 年出生的英格兰年轻人的纵向研究），作者使用多变量回归分析来解决研究问题。他们发现，对于这个队列，没有证据表明青春期或成年早期男性或女性的心理健康和生活满意度因学校类型而异。