Influence of School Factors on Students’ Sense of School Belonging

• Authors: Rita Dukynaitė , Jolita Dudaitė

Abstracts

EN

Sense of school belonging is related to school/classroom social membership. Students’ sense of school belonging depends on teachers, classmates and parents, and arises from a positive interpersonal relationship based on care and support, which contributes to students’ sense of community. The scientific problem analysed in the article is defined by the following question: which fac- tors of school educational environment are significant for the sense of school belonging and social membership to arise? The databases of tests, student and school questionnaires of the OECD PISA worldwide study were used for the survey. 4618 students aged 15 from 216 general and vocational schools of Lithuania participated in the survey. Analysis of data showed that some factors of school educational environment have a positive, while other ones-negative relation to the sense of school belonging.

Keywords

EN

sense of school belonging; school environment; social membership; school influence

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 47
• Pages: 39-52

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Rita Dukynaitė

author

Jolita Dudaitė

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2017.47.1.03

Biblioteka Nauki

1998387