Study title

School Well-being Profile 2011-2012: Personnel

Dataset ID Number

FSD2773

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2773
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2773

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Konu, Anne (University of Tampere. School of Health Sciences)

Abstract

The survey focused on the well-being of staff in primary and secondary schools and upper secondary institutions in Finland. Staff opinions on school facilities, working conditions, social relationships, and means for self-fulfilment in school were studied, as well as their perceived health status. The survey contained both statements and multiple choice questions. The respondents indicated to what extent they agreed with the statements using a five-point scale (i.e. from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree").

School facilities were studied with a number of questions about the classroom (e.g. size, temperature, ventilation, desks), toilet facilities, the dining room, the schoolyard and the school building (e.g. safety, functionality). Access to the occupational health nurse and counselling supervision were charted as well as opinions on the school timetable, school rules and punishments, order in the classroom, pace of work, and the workload. The statements relating to social relationships canvassed relations between staff members, and between the staff and students. The survey also covered opinions on whether parents were participating in solving problems concerning their children or in developing the school, and whether parents appreciated the work done by the staff or were willing to discuss issues with teachers if needed. Views were probed on whether staff members were treated equally, and whether it was easy to get along with the headmaster or get help from him/her if needed. In addition, the respondents were asked whether they had been bullied or harassed at work during the ongoing term and whether they themselves had bullied or harassed someone else.

The statements on self-fulfilment explored different aspects of working in a school. Views were probed on whether staff opinions were taken into account in developing the school and in drawing up school rules, and whether the school encouraged the staff to express their views. The respondents were asked whether they felt that their work is appreciated, whether they had found a suitable method for doing their work, and whether they received help from the headmaster/their supervisor if needed. Regarding health, the respondents were asked about their perceived general health and whether they had had various symptoms (e.g. stomach ache, sleeping problems, headache, fear, anxiety) during the ongoing term.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, working hours (part-time or full time), number of years working in the school, and type of contract.

Keywords

education; educational facilities; health; job satisfaction; parent participation; school classes; schools; schoolteachers; social networks; teacher conditions of employment; teacher-student relationship; working conditions; workloads; workplace relations

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Medical and health sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Compulsory and pre-school education (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Higher and further education (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Working conditions (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

School Well-being Profile

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Data Collector

• Konu, Anne (University of Tampere. School of Health Sciences)
• Lintonen, Tomi (University of Tampere. School of Health Sciences)
• Kainulainen, Lauri
• Kivimäki, Hannu
• Finnish National Board of Education

Data Producers

• University of Tampere. School of Health Sciences
• Finnish National Board of Education

Time Period Covered

2011-08 – 2012-05

Collection Dates

2011-09 – 2012-05

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Staff working in primary and secondary schools in Finland

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability: Availability

No specific sampling method was used in data collection - instead, the respondents were staff in Finnish primary and secondary schools and upper secondary institutions which actively volunteered to participate in the survey. The School Well-being Profile was not widely advertised to schools. Teachers heard about it in various seminars, for instance. The Well-being Profile was designed to be a tool for schools to use for development and self-assessment. Still, the schools using the Profile had to commit themselves to subjecting the data for scientific use.

The survey questionnaire was available on a web page administered by the Finnish National Board of Education, and an id code was required to access it. Schools could register for the service and thereby receive a school id, which enabled them to create id codes for their staff. The staff then filled in the questionnaire, also providing the id code they had received. Only the responses with the id were saved. Thus, each staff member could fill in the questionnaire only once. The technical implementation of the survey ensured that the respondents answered all background questions (excluding age) and at least two thirds of the questions in each module.

Restrictive factors preventing schools from participating, in addition to not volunteering actively, included not having access to the Internet and unwillingness to use a web tool in their development work. There were differences between schools, for instance, in the speed of the Internet connection, in the IT equipment available and in the way the equipment was used.

166 schools or educational institutions participated in the survey, and there were 2,849 respondents.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

FSD translates quantitative data into English on request, free of charge. More information on ordering data translation.

Data Version

1.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

School names, municipalities, contact persons, and open-ended questions have been removed from the data.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Konu, Anne (University of Tampere): School Well-being Profile 2011-2012: Personnel [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2012-09-03). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2773

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Other Material

See downloadable files at the top of the page.

The Well-being Profile Website

Related Materials

Koulun hyvinvointiprofiili [verkkodokumentti]. http://www10.edu.fi/hyvinvointiprofiili/ [viitattu 4.9.2012].

Related Publications

Konu Anne & Viitanen Elina & Lintonen Tomi (2010). Teachers' well-being and perceptions on leadership practices. Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. 3 Iss: 1, pp. 44-57.

Konu Anne & Lintonen Tomi (2006). School well-being in Grades 4-12. Health Education Research 2006;21(5): 633-642.

Konu Anne & Lintonen Tomi (2006). Theory-based survey analysis of well-being in secondary schools in Finland. Health Promotion International 2006; 21(1): 27-36.

Lintonen Tomi & Konu Anne (2006). The Well-being Profile: An Internet tool for school health promotion. Promot & Educ 2006; 8(4): 230-235.

Konu Anne & Koivisto Anna-Maija (2011). The School Well-being Profile. A valid instrument for evaluation. In LG Chova, M Belenguer, AL Martinez: EDULEARN11 Publications. Barcelona 4th-6th of July 2011, pp. 1842-1850, IATED.

Konu Anne (2010). Koululaisten hyvinvoinnin arviointi ja alakoulujen hyvinvointi 2000-luvulla. [The Evaluation of the Well-being of Schoolchildren, and the Well-being of Elementary Schools during 21st Century] In Joronen K and Koski A: Tunne- ja sosiaalisten taitojen vahvistaminen kouluyhteisössä. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 13-32.

Konu Anne (2005). Hyvinvointiprofiili koulun kehittämisen välineenä [The Well-being Profile as a Tool for School Development]. Teoksessa Peltonen Heidi (toim.) Opiskelun tuki esi- ja perusopetuksessa. 2005. Opetushallitus, 256-265.

Konu, Anne & Joronen, Katja & Lintonen, Tomi (2015). Seasonality in School Well-being. The Case of Finland. Child Indicators Research 8, 265-277. DOI: 10.1007/s12187-014-9243-9

Kylliäinen, Saija (2015). Sosiaaliset suhteet koulun työyhteisön hyvinvoinnin voimavaroina. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. Terveystieteiden yksikön pro gradu -tutkielma. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201502181118

Konu A, Rimpelä M. 2002. Well-being in Schools - a conceptual model. Health Promot Int 17(1):79-87.

Rantaeskola, Anne (2017). Alakoululaisten kokema kouluhyvinvointi lukuvuosina 2005-2006 ja 2015-2016. Itä-Suomen yliopisto. Kasvatustieteen pro gradu -tutkielma.