The possibilities and challenges of combining Christian Buddhist belonging, both the natal convert variety, have been discussed most often within paradigm dual or multiple religious belonging. In first section this article, I will critically discuss usefulness paradigm, especially with regard to appropriateness term "belonging," compared other terms such as "identity" "participation." second se...

Trusting relationships at school and within other social networks emerge as protective factors that are crucial to the positive development of early adolescents. School is one of the critical environments where they can develop a sense of belonging. This study involved 20 qualitative interviews with school staff and youth workers recruited from social services and high schools in Eastern Ontari...

This article presents the results of a study conducted with 243 Native American students who were part of a multi-ethnic sample of adolescents attending middle school in a large urban center in the Southwest region of the United States. Native adolescents who felt a stronger sense of belonging in their school were found to report a lower lifetime use of alcohol and cigarettes, lower cigarette a...

Adolescent participation in extracurricular activities is associated with numerous positive outcomes, yet the mechanisms underlying this relationship are largely unknown. This study had two goals: to investigate the association between participation in extracurricular activities and indicators of positive and negative development for Australian adolescents; and to determine if these association...

correlation between r i and each geographical point r j belonging to path j (Fig.1 b) : Continuous regionalization for massive surface waves dataset Eric Debayle 1 and Malcolm Sambridge Institut de physique du globe de Strasbourg, CNRS and Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France ([email protected]) Research School of Earth Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Aus...

Researchers have been concerned with whether strong racial identification promotes or inhibits achievement motivation among African American youth, but current literatures have paid little attention to the role of youths’ contexts. In this study, we outline a racial identity – context congruence framework that predicts positive benefits of a strong, positive racial identity when the context is ...

The concept and realization of family gender issues in socialist Poland was generally a contested topic. had remained core institution society—and yet, it underwent significant transformation due to changing life-style models social expectations. In the late 1960s, crisis officially acknowledged, as new expectations increasingly conflicted with shortage economic resources, systemic limitations....