The need to belong: A deep dive into the origins, implications, and future of a foundational construct

KA Allen, DLL Gray, RF Baumeister… - Educational psychology …, 2022 - Springer
The need to belong in human motivation is relevant for all academic disciplines that study
human behavior, with immense importance to educational psychology. The presence of …

Four guideposts toward an integrated model of academic motivation: Motivational resilience, academic identity, complex social ecologies, and development

EA Skinner - Educational Psychology Review, 2023 - Springer
The field of achievement motivation is concept and data rich, housing more than a dozen
major theories, all of which have withstood empirical scrutiny. Their very success, however …

The relationship of school connectedness to adolescents' engagement in co-occurring health risks: A meta-analytic review

ID Rose, CA Lesesne, J Sun… - The Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
School connectedness is an important factor in the lives of youth and are a leverage point for
optimizing youth's social, emotional, and physical health. This study presents a meta …

Student-identified practices for improving belonging in Australian secondary schools: Moving beyond COVID-19

KA Allen, E Berger, A Reupert, C Grove, F May… - School Mental …, 2023 - Springer
Despite a strong body of evidence demonstrating the importance of school belonging across
multiple measures of wellbeing and academic outcomes, many students still do not feel a …

School belonging and student engagement: The critical overlaps, similarities, and implications for student outcomes

KA Allen, C Boyle - Handbook of research on student engagement, 2022 - Springer
The theoretical and empirical literature has long included belonging as central to student
engagement. Some conceptualizations and approaches have suggested that a student's …

Examining predictors of school belonging using a socio-ecological perspective

KA Allen, B Gallo Cordoba, T Ryan, G Arslan… - Journal of Child and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Between the years of 2003–2015, the Programme for International Student
Assessment (PISA) has identified a global trend signalling a decline in a sense of school …

Social connectedness and adolescent suicide risk

A Arango, D Brent, J Grupp‐Phelan… - Journal of child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Despite evidence of the importance of interpersonal connectedness to our
understanding of suicide risk, relatively little research has examined the protective and …

[HTML][HTML] Who am I? A second-order meta-analytic review of correlates of the self in childhood and adolescence.

T Jansen, J Meyer, J Hattie, J Möller - Psychological Bulletin, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
People's subjective beliefs about themselves affect what people think and, consequently,
what they do. Positive self-beliefs are important for many life outcomes, from academic …

School belonging predicts whether an emerging adult will be not in education, employment, or training (NEET) after school.

P Parker, KA Allen, R Parker, J Guo… - Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Children who are excluded from school may end up being excluded from other social
institutions. Yet little research has considered whether low school belonging is a risk factor …

School belongingness and internalizing and externalizing problems in adolescents: Exploring the influence of meaningful school

M Yıldırım, H Yıldırım-Kurtuluş, H Batmaz… - Child Indicators …, 2023 - Springer
The current study investigates the mediating effects of meaningful school on the association
between school belongingness and internalizing and externalizing problems. A sample of …