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 …

Impact of school-based interventions for building school belonging in adolescence: A systematic review

KA Allen, N Jamshidi, E Berger, A Reupert… - Educational Psychology …, 2022 - Springer
A student's sense of school belonging is critical to school success, yet internationally, a large
proportion of secondary students do not feel that they belong to their school. However, little …

How the Bronfenbrenner bio-ecological system theory explains the development of students' sense of belonging to school?

W El Zaatari, I Maalouf - SAGE Open, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The central concept of this review underscores the fact that the development of a feeling of
belonging at school occurs because of different interactions between developing students …

[PDF][PDF] School belonging: The importance of student and teacher relationships

KA Allen, CD Slaten, G Arslan, S Roffey… - … Palgrave handbook of …, 2021 - library.oapen.org
School belonging is a multidimensional construct encompassing emotional and behavioural
components (eg, respected, accepted, and included; Arslan & Duru, 2017; Goodenow & …

Student belongingness in higher education: Lessons for Professors from the COVID-19 pandemic

D Tice, R Baumeister, J Crawford… - Journal of University …, 2021 - open-publishing.org
'To learn about X, observe what happens to the system when X is removed.'What happens to
the higher education student experience when, during a pandemic, so many of the avenues …

Come as you are: Examining autistic identity development and the neurodiversity movement through an intersectional lens

M Botha, K Gillespie-Lynch - Human Development, 2022 - karger.com
Singer intended for neurodiversity to be a new category of intersectionality. However,
intersectionality has been neglected in autism research and practice. This paper aims to …

Sense of belonging in higher education students: An Australian longitudinal study from 2013 to 2019

J Crawford, KA Allen, T Sanders… - Studies in Higher …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Student sense of belonging is a current challenge to higher education providers, with
consistently declining ratings in national surveys. For universities globally, this is a concern …

Social belonging, compassion, and kindness: Key ingredients for fostering resilience, recovery, and growth from the COVID-19 pandemic

GM Slavich, LG Roos, J Zaki - Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to increases in
anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, burnout, grief, and suicide, particularly for …

Improving primary to secondary school transitions: A systematic review of school-based interventions to prepare and support student social-emotional and educational …

R Beatson, J Quach, L Canterford, P Farrow… - Educational Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
The transition from primary to secondary school is characterised by multiple substantial
changes in children's physical, organisational, social, and pedagogical environments …

Loneliness and depression: bidirectional mendelian randomization analyses using data from three large genome-wide association studies

DA Sbarra, FA Ramadan, KW Choi, JL Treur… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Major depression (MD) is a serious psychiatric illness afflicting nearly 5% of the world's
population. A large correlational literature suggests that loneliness is a prospective risk …