The relationship of socio-psychological security and academic performance of the educational environment of municipalities

Abstract

© 2019, Kazan Federal University. All rights reserved. This article studies the link between the two most important parameters of the modern educational system: academic performance and socio-psychological security. It is based on environmental approach. The concept of "psychological safety" is considered in the context of modern foreign and domestic concepts. An empirical study provided data of the socio-psychological monitoring from 2016 and the published educational rating of municipalities. Data was used to identify probabilistic predictors of the possible involvement of students in drug use. The study involved 107,289 students of secondary school from 13 to 16 years old and 45 territorial areas with autonomous socio-economic, geographical and educational characteristics and employed statistical analysis, correlation analysis, and U Mann-Whitney. Significant differences in the proportion of 12-13 years old students from a risk group with educational ratings of the areas enabled conclusions to be drawn about the relationship of risks of troubled student behavior as an indicator of the psychological safety of the educational environments with high educational ratings in the territorial areas.