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How student perceptions of stuffy air and unpleasant odour are associated with students’ well-being: Cross-level interaction effects of school climate
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Kuopio Campus, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Methodology Centre for Human Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5026-4934
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
2024 (English)In: Journal of Environmental Psychology, ISSN 0272-4944, E-ISSN 1522-9610, Vol. 93, article id 102211Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

It has been suggested that group-level factors affect how perceived indoor air quality (IAQ) is associated with well-being. Therefore, we analysed how student-perceived social climate at the school-level modified the student-level association between student-perceived unpleasant odour/stuffy air and well-being. The well-being indicators were seven self-reported anxiety symptoms (such as nervous, anxious, or on edge) and two somatic symptoms (headache and tiredness). We analysed a representative sample of Finnish school students (N = 678 schools, N = 71,392 students) by using multilevel modelling and testing cross-level interactions. At the studentlevel, both unpleasant odour and perceived stuffy air were significantly but weakly associated with increased anxiety and somatic symptoms. At the school-level, these IAQ indicators were significantly but weakly associated with increased anxiety and moderately with somatic symptoms. Furthermore, a good social climate at the schoollevel modified the student-level association between perceived stuffy air and anxiety symptoms. Those students who reported stuffy air were more anxious if they studied in a school with poor social climate than good social climate. Our results provide robust evidence that group-level factors may differently modify the relationships between different IAQ indicators and components of well-being.

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Elsevier, 2024. Vol. 93, article id 102211
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Social climate, Anxiety, School, Indoor environment, Somatic symptoms, Indoor air quality
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Applied Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-218180DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102211ISI: 001138332600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85179793280OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-218180DiVA, id: diva2:1820458
Available from: 2023-12-18 Created: 2023-12-18 Last updated: 2025-04-24Bibliographically approved

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