Using machine learning to predict UK and Japanese secondary students' life satisfaction in PISA 2018.

Journal: The British journal of educational psychology
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Life satisfaction is a key component of students' subjective well-being due to its impact on academic achievement and lifelong health. Although previous studies have investigated life satisfaction through different lenses, few of them employed machine learning (ML) approaches.

Authors

  • Zexuan Pan
    Marsal Family School of Education and Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
  • Maria Cutumisu
    Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.