How Do School Connectedness and Attachment to Parents Interrelate in Predicting Adolescent Depressive Symptoms?

Shochet, Ian M.; Hömel, Ross; Cockshaw, Wendell; Montgomery, Danielle T.

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“…Well functioning families provide an environment conducive to the development of family connectedness, which was found to predict children's healthy adjustment. Children who were disengaged from their families had poorer adjustment, findings that are reflected in other studies (e.g., Shochet et al, 2008).…”

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Young People's Perceptions of Family, Peer, and School Connectedness and Their Impact on Adjustment

Law

Cuskelly

Carroll

2012

Aust. j. guid. couns.

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Families, peer groups, and schools are important environments for children's positive growth and development. A theoretical model that linked children's perceptions of parenting, sense of connectedness to family, peers and school, along with peer group type, to adjustment was developed and tested. Data were collected from students and their parents. The model was supported and explained 56% of the variance with respect to children's reports. Family, school, and peer connectedness all independently predicted child reported adjustment. Differences were apparent between children's and parents' reports, and the model did not convincingly predict parental views of their child's adjustment. There was evidence that non-familial social environments can have a positive, compensatory impact on children's emotional functioning -a most important finding for school personnel interested in student wellbeing.

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Young People's Perceptions of Family, Peer, and School Connectedness and Their Impact on Adjustment

Law

Cuskelly

Carroll

2012

Aust. j. guid. couns.

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“…School connectedness (student engagement with and a sense of belonging to school; McNeely and Falci 2004) predicts academic competence, educational attainment, job satisfaction, and psychological health (Veronneau et al 2010;Pinquart et al 2003;Shochet et al 2008;Li et al 2010). Low school connectedness is probably common in Western countries, given the high prevalence rates for truancy and related markers of low school connectedness (Moon and Ando 2009;Bonny et al 2000).…”

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The Influence of Families on Early Adolescent School Connectedness: Evidence That This Association Varies with Adolescent Involvement in Peer Drinking Networks

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O’Flaherty

Toumbourou

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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School connectedness is central to the long term well-being of adolescents, and high quality parent-child relationships facilitate school connectedness. This study examined the extent to which family relationship quality is associated with the school connectedness of pre- and early teenagers, and how this association varies with adolescent involvement in peer drinking networks. The sample consisted of 7,372 10-14 year olds recruited from 231 schools in 30 Australian communities. Participants completed the Communities that Care youth survey. A multi-level model of school connectedness was used, with a random term for school-level variation. Key independent variables included family relationship quality, peer drinking networks, and school grade. Control variables included child gender, sensation seeking, depression, child alcohol use, parent education, and language spoken at home. For grade 6 students, the association of family relationship quality and school connectedness was lower when peer drinking networks were present, and this effect was nonsignificant for older (grade 8) students. Post hoc analyses indicated that the effect for family relationship quality on school connectedness was nonsignificant when adolescents in grade 6 reported that the majority of friends consumed alcohol. The results point to the importance of family-school partnerships in early intervention and prevention.

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“…Pioneering work conducted by Resnick et al (1997) showed that school connectedness explained between 13% and 18% of the variance in emotional distress in adolescents. Subsequent research has suggested that difficulties with school connectedness are particularly germane to adolescent depressive symptoms (e.g., Anderman, 2002;Jacobson & Rowe, 1999;Kuperminc, Leadbetter, & Blatt, 2001;Shochet, Dadds, Ham, & Montague, 2006;Shochet, Homel, Montgomery, & Cockshaw, 2008). Jacobson and Rowe reported correlations of .35 and .37 between school connectedness and depressive symptoms for adolescent boys and girls, respectively (M age ¼ 16 years).…”

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The Role of Social Skills and School Connectedness in Preadolescent Depressive Symptoms

Ross

Shochet

Bellair

2010

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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In the current study, we tested whether school connectedness mediates more distal deficits in social skills in influencing depressive symptoms in a sample of 127 sixth- and seventh-grade students. Results demonstrated that school connectedness and social skills accounted for 44% and 26% of variance in depressive symptoms respectively and 49% in a combined model. Although the full mediation model hypothesis was not supported, follow-up analyses revealed that school connectedness partially mediated the link between social skills and preadolescent depressive symptoms. Thus, school connectedness appears to play as strong a role in depressive symptoms in this younger preadolescent age group.

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How Do School Connectedness and Attachment to Parents Interrelate in Predicting Adolescent Depressive Symptoms?

Cited by 84 publications

References 27 publications

Young People's Perceptions of Family, Peer, and School Connectedness and Their Impact on Adjustment

Young People's Perceptions of Family, Peer, and School Connectedness and Their Impact on Adjustment

The Influence of Families on Early Adolescent School Connectedness: Evidence That This Association Varies with Adolescent Involvement in Peer Drinking Networks

The Role of Social Skills and School Connectedness in Preadolescent Depressive Symptoms

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