School adjustment determines long-term adjustment in society. Yet, immigrant youth do better in some countries than in others. Drawing on acculturation research (Berry, 1997; Ward, 2001) and self-determination theory (Ryan and Deci, 2000), we investigated indirect effects of adolescent immigrants' acculturation orientations on school adjustment (school-related attitudes, truancy, and mathematic...

Discrimination is considered a contextual risk factor for ethnic minority youth, but social support provided in the same context may function to offset the risk or encourage adaptive responses. Per the integrative model of child development (Garcia Coll et al., 1996), experiences in the school, familial, and community settings can foster the development of cognitive, social, and emotional compe...

The importance of self-concept and the feeling belonging to a school have been highlighted in numerous studies as predictors success. However, there are hardly any that link relationship between school. Thus, aim this study is analyze influence personal educational on school, based data provided by PISA 2018 report. To achieve objective, correlational methodology structural equation modelling h...

Feeling connected with significant others has long been recognized as a central aspect of human motivation (e.g., Atkinson, 1964; Bowlby, 1969; Maslow, 1954; Rogers, 1951). However, the construct of belonging has received little attention from sport motivation researchers apart from a description of social motives for involvement and social sources of enjoyment (e.g., McCullagh, Matzkanin, Shaw...

Various aspects of the culture and educational practices bilingual school in Budapest’s 15th district, including materials, drama, rituals, among others, reflect functional sites Pierre Nora’s memory sites. These are crucial shaping students’ cultural identities connecting them to their heritage. By incorporating into life can help students understand identify roots, develop a sense belonging, ...

Objectives: This article describes two studies related to the development of the Perceived School Experiences Scale (PSES). The PSES may be used by social workers to assess youths’ perceptions of three school-related protective factors, including school connectedness, academic press, and academic motivation. Method: In Study 1, exploratory and confirmatory analyses were conducted on a calibrati...

Objective: In recent years, school belonging has been associated with wellbeing and targeted in mental health promotion programmes schools. Less attention paid to the relationship between loneliness, especially during primary years. This study aimed first analyse socioemotional well-being, loneliness secondly, according belonginess hypothesis, examine role of as a mediator loneliness. Methods: ...