The Effect of Home-School-Community Collaborative Support Systems on Adolescent Mental Health: A Multi-site Empirical Study

Abstract

Mental health problems in young people around the world are becoming increasingly serious issues of public health, and the number of cases of anxiety, depression and other related disorders among young people aged 12-19 has been rising. How well can the Home-School-Community Collaborative Support System promote the mental health of adolescents? A quasi-experimental design was employed for the 312 students from the six high schools in the two cities. To assess the mental health of the subjects, the General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12), the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and the Mental Health Composite Index (MHCI) were employed. Based on the above results, the score for MHCI in adolescents with high collaboration was higher than that for adolescents in the low-collaboration group (M = 76.4, SD = 8.2 vs. M = 61.3, SD = 9.7; p < 0.001). According to the results of the multiple regression analysis, family support ($\beta = 0.41$), school support ($\beta = 0.33$) and community support ($\beta = 0.27$) were all positively and significantly related to MHCI, and the model explained about 48.3% of the variation in the outcome. The negative correlation coefficient is -0.29, and this factor is still at a relatively high level. Based on the above results, it is proposed to build an organised cooperation system for the HSC examinations of secondary schools and address the problems of structural academic pressure and weak social support.