The intraindividual relations between social and academic self-efficacy, loneliness, academic stress and psychological distress in adolescence

Today, there is increasing pressure on young people to appear perfect. They are expected to do well at school and have many, preferably popular, friends. This pressure and the unreasonable expectations from people around the young person, and themselves, can start a negative spiral of weak self-efficacy beliefs, school-related stress, loneliness and symptoms of anxiety and depression.

However, there is a lack of research into how these factors are connected over time within adolescents. The project aimed to fill this knowledge gap by examining panel data from the COMPLETE project, which has followed a cohort of students from the beginning to the end of an upper secondary education.