Project Title
TeenPath: Social Environment, Health and Well-Being Among Adolescents in Ireland
Project Description
The project seeks to understand how family, neighbourhood environment and family social and economic circumstances interact with individual characteristics such as sex, personality and temperament to shape mental health, health behaviours and educational outcomes at the end of secondary schooling and the cusp of adulthood.
We ask three interlinked questions:
- “how do peer relationships and exposure to social media influence the risk of developing anxiety and depression?”;
- “how do family, neighbourhood and individual characteristics shape the development of health behaviours such as diet, exercise, smoking and alcohol consumption?”;
- “did the financial crisis and recession experienced in Ireland between 2008 and 2014 influence educational outcomes at the end of secondary school and if so, how?”
