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The Personal and Contextual Contributors to School Belongingness among Primary School Students

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Title
The Personal and Contextual Contributors to School Belongingness among Primary School Students
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PLOS ONE, April 2015
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0123353
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Sharmila Vaz, Marita Falkmer, Marina Ciccarelli, Anne Passmore, Richard Parsons, Tele Tan, Torbjorn Falkmer

Abstract

School belongingness has gained currency among educators and school health professionals as an important determinant of adolescent health. The current cross-sectional study presents the 15 most significant personal and contextual factors that collectively explain 66.4% (two-thirds) of the variability in 12-year old students' perceptions of belongingness in primary school. The study is part of a larger longitudinal study investigating the factors associated with student adjustment in the transition from primary to secondary school. The study found that girls and students with disabilities had higher school belongingness scores than boys, and their typically developing counterparts respectively; and explained 2.5% of the variability in school belongingness. The majority (47.1% out of 66.4%) of the variability in school belongingness was explained by student personal factors, such as social acceptance, physical appearance competence, coping skills, and social affiliation motivation; followed by parental expectations (3% out of 66.4%), and school-based factors (13.9% out of 66.4%) such as, classroom involvement, task-goal structure, autonomy provision, cultural pluralism, and absence of bullying. Each of the identified contributors of primary school belongingness can be shaped through interventions, system changes, or policy reforms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Malaysia 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Unknown 244 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 42 17%
Student > Master 31 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 28 11%
Researcher 23 9%
Student > Bachelor 21 9%
Other 41 17%
Unknown 60 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 66 27%
Social Sciences 39 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 20 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 6%
Arts and Humanities 9 4%
Other 32 13%
Unknown 65 26%
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#17,753,591
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