School Fairness it`s Relationship with Indicators of Health and Psychological Well-being among pupils A Field Study in latakia City Schools for the Basic Education Stage

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the importance of school fairness experiences on some dimensions of health and psychological well-being among pupils in the basic education stage. To achieve this, a questionnaire consisting of (52) items distributed across (5) domains (personal belief in a fair world, fairness experiences of teachers ,peers, school grades, and psychological health indicators). After verifying it`s validity and reliability, it was administered to a sample consisting of (488) male and female pupils. The most prominent results were that personal belief in a fair world was positively correlated with the variables of life satisfaction and mood level (usual subjective well-being), and negatively correlated with the variable of depressive manifestations (current subjective well-being). The variable of teachers fairness from the pupil `s perspective point of view was negatively associated with the variable depressive manifestations and positively correlated with the variable of mood level. Meanwhile, the perception of school grades as deserved by pupils from their perspective, was positively associated with life satisfaction , mood level. However, no significant differences were found in personal belief in a fair world ,school experiences of fairness, or indicators of psychological heath and well-being attributable to the gender variable.