Schulisches Wohlbefinden, Schulform und Tabakkonsum von Jugendlichen: Ergebnisse der SILNE-Studie

Aims:This study investigates the role of the attended school type and school wellbeing for adolescent smoking and further examines for the first time, whether this association is related as a double jeopardy to students tobacco use. Methods: Data were obtained from the German WP5-Survey of the European SILNE-Study "Tackling socioeconomic inequalities in smoking: learning from natural experiments by time trend analyses and cross-national comparisons" (students in grades 8 and 9) in Hannover/Germany (n = 1.190). Associations between school wellbeing (school engagement, school connectedness and burnout), attended school type and smoking were examined in bi- and multivariate analyses. Results: Adolescents with low school engagement, low school connectedness and high school burnout showed higher likelihoods of smoking as well as students attending school types other than Grammar schools. The results reveal no evidence for the double jeopardy hypothesis in relation to adolescent smoking. Grammar school students with high school burnout showed higher likelihoods of smoking compared to students attending other school types. Conclusions: Our results provide important information for school type-specific initiatives of health promotion in order to strengthen school wellbeing and to tackle tobacco use in adolescence.