“…It also had significant correlations with loneliness, intention to dropout, satisfaction with the university, and self-report sense of belonging. College students with a high sense of belonging also reported more effective adaptive help-seeking strategies (Won et al, 2019), fewer psychological difficulties (Pittman & Richmond, 2007;Thompson et al, 2019) and loneliness (Mounts, 2004), and higher affective well-being (Çivitci, 2014). Further, several studies showed that belongingness was an essential protective factor on students' psychological health and adjustment in the context of stressors or adversities (Backhaus et al, 2019;Civitci, 2015;Eisenberg et al, 2007;Nuttman-Shwartz, 2019;Zhang et al, 2020).…”