Sense of Belonging to School: Can Schools Make a Difference?

By Xin Ma. 2003

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Individual and School Structural Effects on African American High School Students' Academic Achievement (2007, background): “Research has shown that students’ sense of belonging influences academic achievement (Ma, 2003), and that students who feel their teachers encourage them are more committed to learning and are more successful academically (Harachi, Abbott, Catalano, & Haggerty, 1996; Murdock, 1996).”
The relations between the student–teacher trust relationship and school success in the case of Korean middle schools (2007, result): “Path diagram of estimated structural model These findings are consistent with other research documenting the link between children’s feelings of connectedness and belonging and their school motivation and achievement (Goodenow, 1993; Wentzel, 1998; Furrer & Skinner, 2003; Ma, 2003).”
School Belonging: A Review of the History, Current Trends, and Future Directions (2016, methodology): “…literature is offered by Goodenow and Grady (1993), who define school belonging as ‘the extent to which students feel personally accepted, respected, included, and supported by others in the school social environment’ (p. 80; e.g., Anderman, 2002; Knifsend & Graham, 2012; Ma, 2003; Nichols, 2006).”
Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research (2021, background): “Studies suggest that state belonging is influenced by various daily life events and stressors (Ma, 2003; Sedgwick & Rougeau, 2010; Walton & Cohen, 2011).”
School Belonging in Different Cultures: The Effects of Individualism and Power Distance (2017, positive): “Therefore, we followed the tradition of researchers who measured these constructs separately (e.g., Guay et al., 1999; Ma, 2003; Maestas et al., 2007).”
The relationships between school belonging and students’ motivational, social-emotional, behavioural, and academic outcomes in secondary education: a meta-analytic review (2019, background): “…and Wehrspann 2016), their classroom behaviour (e.g. Kiefer, Alley, and Ellerbrock 2015), and their academic achievement (e.g. Anderman 2003; Ma 2003; Niemiec and Ryan 2009; Pittman, Richmond, and Richmond 2007; Zimmer-Gembeck et al. 2006) but negatively related to school dropout (e.g.…”
Relations between Teachers' Emotional Exhaustion and Students' Educational Outcomes. (2016, background): “, Marsh, H.W., Robitzsch, A., Trautwein, U., Asparouhov, T., & Muthén, B.O. (2008). The multilevel latent covariate model: A new, more reliable approach to grouplevel effects in contextual studies. Psychological Methods, 13, 203-229. Lüdtke, O., Marsh, H.W., Robitzsch, A., & Trautwein, U. (2011). A ”
School Belonging: The Importance of Student and Teacher Relationships (2021, background): “The terms used to describe school belonging vary considerably in the literature (e.g., Allen & Bowles, 2012; Anderman, 2002; Knifsend & Graham, 2012; Ma, 2003; Nichols, 2006; Slaten, Ferguson, Allen, Brodrick, &Waters, 2016).”
Testing a Conception of How School Leadership Influences Student Learning (2010, background): “A large proportion of the research on this mediator has used very large data sets and sophisticated statistical methods (Ma, 2003; Ma & Crocker, 2007; Ma & Klinger, 2000; Ma & Willms, 2004), features that add to the confidence one can have in these findings.”
Testing a developmental–ecological model of student engagement: a multilevel latent growth curve analysis (2009, background): “More recently, Ma ( 2003 ) found that self‐esteem is the most important predictor of sense of belonging across grades six and eight.”