![]() ![]() Humans have a capacity for self-awareness. Nowadays, up to 10% of children and adolescents suffer from some kind of psychological ill-health, and latest reports suggest that the prevalence of psychological ill-health among children and adolescents in Sweden is high when compared to other Nordic Countries. Among children and adolescents, the prevalence of anxiety syndrome and depression appears to have increase over time. Psychological ill-health includes a number of conditions with different levels of impairment ranging from single, more or less painful anxiety/anxiety disorder to more server medical conditions such as those requiring hospitalization. In Sweden, psychological ill-health among children and adolescents has increase with 100% during the last decades. For example, the Swedish government's ambition that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child will be Swedish law, as well as the establishment of sustainability goals in the framework of the UN Agenda 2030, have directed attention to the issue of psychological health among children and adolescents. The psychological (i. e., mental) health, participation, and establishment of children and adolescents in society is increasingly perceived as one of today's major societal challenges. These results are not in agreement with the increased psychological ill-health as being reported among children and adolescents during the last decade in Sweden. Self-perceived GSE and PSE among children and adolescents aged 11 and 14 years in Southeastern Sweden were higher in 2017 as compared to 2000. Similarly, self-perceived PSE was higher in 2017 as compared to 2000 among both 11-years old boys (p<0.001) and girls (p=0.023) and 14-years old boys (p=0.025) and girls (p=0.002). Self-perceived GSE was higher in 2017 as compared to 2000 among both 11-years old boys (p<0.001) and girls (p<0.001) and 14-years old boys (p=0.008) and girls (p<0.001). GSE and PSE were assessed with the Children and Youth Physical Self-Perception Profile (CY-PSPP). In October 2017, children (n=186) and adolescents (n=140) from the same grade-levels, schools and classrooms provided data for the same variables as in 2000. In October 2000, data for self-perceived GSE and PSE, and anthropometry were collected from 11-years old children (Grade 5) (n=74) and 14-years old adolescents (Grade 8) (n=84). The same protocol, procedures, and instruments were used in 20. The present study consists of two independent cross-sectional study-cohorts from Southeastern Sweden, investigated in 20. To compare self-perceived global self-esteem (GSE) and physical self-esteem (PSE) among children and adolescents aged 11 and 14 years in Southeastern Sweden, investigated in 20. ![]()
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