Family Life And School Achievement
The project is to prove the relation between the psychological well being and school achievement in children. This is done by answering the questions like what is the state of well being. There are different ways in which the psychologist defines the state of well being. As per them the well being can be of the body and that of the mind. Both of them affect a child’s performance in the school. A sturdy kid shows better resistance to all the diseases and shows better stamina to cope up.
In the same way a kid with a resilient frame of mind and a healthy brain shows better understanding of the situation around him and also devices methods to pave through them. But if the kid is already burdened with some other thought or sentiment his attention deviates. Hence a child is not able to keep up with the growing needs of the academics and hence loses the race. The talk is not about how these people suffer and get deviated, but to spot how the mental well being is related to their achievements, if any. There is a whole structure that defines the state of wellbeing for any individual. The psychologist points out how the there are six dimensions in which the well being has to be ensured to ensure the overall well being. The six dimensions that he talks about are the – positive relation with others, environmental mastery, autonomy, personal growth, purpose in life and self acceptance. In the paper you would find how all these dimensions are interconnected as well.
At the end all that is to be said is that these dimensions are not only inter related but also dependent on the performance in school. Each one of them boost up at the boosting of the performance. Hence to take that the psychological well being and school achievement in children are related and interdependent is not being wrong.
Problem formulation
To comment on the effect of well being on a person’s performance it is needful to know the meaning of these two areas themselves. Also to understand how are they interconnected and how does one affect the other.
Understanding factors of psychological well being
For a child the indicator of his performance could be his achievements at school. School is the place where he interacts with the outer world and people who are not related to him. Hence, at such a place the work he does is done to prove his own self and to display his abilities. That means that school becomes his place to compete with the other elements of society and discover his place in the coming years. Whereas, the environment at home is according to his comfort therefore, the strife to understand the environment and his own self is not so much. The other elements are supportive and even profitable without his trying, there are trials and moments to prove oneself; if there is a sibling, but still it’s less competitive as per the environment at school. On these grounds we take performance at school as the real indicator of a child’s performance. This can also be supported with the point that if the child is encountering any familial problem then at home he is supported and helped to come out of it, at least by someone. But the outer world is no where concerned with it. Hence the conditions at school come out to be similar, to an extent, for all kids and hence their performance there- can be assessed as their ‘performance’.
Then we come to well being. In this essay the idea is to prove how psychological well being is important to help children performance at school, or how are the two connected and directly proportional. The state of well being has been defined by a lot of people in the field of psychology. Actually, well being could be, physical and mental. Here we talk of the mental aspect, that is, the psychological aspect. As defined by the department of psychology of the University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706, USA; the state of psychological well being can be a consequence of well being in six dimensions. The six dimensions in which well being is required for overall well being can be categorized under- Autonomy, Environmental Mastery, Personal Growth, Purpose in Life, Positive Relations with Others, Self-Acceptance.
These six dimensions that have been mentioned as the structure of well being are actually areas where a person exercises his will. A place a person would exercise his will and attain positive results and accolades, no wonder he would grow confident and satisfied with self. And his confidence would make the person feel secure of his position in this big world. He would feel assured and needed in the environment out of his family and will have a positive effect on his performance.
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