Subjective wellbeing and school failure in children and adolescents: influence of psychosocial factors

Our main objective is to study the relation and impact of student retention in subjective wellbeing in children and adolescents and the role of social and personal factors in this relation. Data was collected in 16 schools, 1181 young people responded to the questionnaires, 51.5% were female, ages ranged between 8 and 17 years and mean age 9,9 (SD = 1.35). 12,2% had been retained a grade. Three adequate regression models were built. Model 1 establishes association between being retained a grade and subjective wellbeing. This association is not significant when considering the effect of personal and social factors, which were strongly associated with subjective wellbeing. Research and intervention implications were discussed in order to promote subjective wellbeing and school failure prevention.