This quantitative study connects secondary school belonging, or connectedness, with longterm benefits into young adulthood. Belonging is framed via dimensions such as positive affect towards school, meaningful relationships with teachers, and feelings of being socially valued. Previous research had indicated immediate benefits to belonging, for mental health and wellbeing, however, this study used data from a longitudinal Australia study. A link between secondary school sense of belonging and mental health symptoms in young adulthood was found. All aspects of school belonging \u2013 but particularly school status and feeling socially valued \u2013 were associated with lower mental health symptoms across young adulthood. The study indicates that belonging appears to offer a long-term protections against experiences of depression, anxiety, and stress later in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Allen, KA., Greenwood, C.J., Berger, E.\u00a0et al.<\/em>\u00a0(2024). Adolescent school belonging and mental health outcomes in young adulthood: Findings from a multi-wave prospective cohort study.\u00a0School Mental Health<\/em> 16<\/em>, 149\u2013160. This quantitative study connects secondary school belonging, or connectedness, with longterm benefits into young adulthood. Belonging is framed via dimensions such as positive affect towards school, meaningful relationships with teachers, and feelings of being socially valued. Previous research had indicated immediate benefits to belonging, for mental health and wellbeing, however, this study used data from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotatedbibliography","category-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonstewart.com\/belonging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonstewart.com\/belonging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonstewart.com\/belonging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonstewart.com\/belonging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonstewart.com\/belonging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bonstewart.com\/belonging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/bonstewart.com\/belonging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonstewart.com\/belonging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonstewart.com\/belonging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonstewart.com\/belonging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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