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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Need to belong"”.
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The Need to Belong and Student Grades: Is There a Correlation?
The research examined whether adolescent’s need for belonging is correlated with their first semester grade point averages. This exploratory research will attempt to asses middle school students sense of belongingness through the use of the Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale (Goodenow, …
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Peer Victimization and the Need to Belong within the Context of Recess
… study utilized a mixed-methods approach in order to examine the frequency of peer victimization at recess and explore how the current context of recess relates to children’s sense of belonging. Participants included 464 students between grades 4 to 8 from nine Southern Ontario elementary schools. …
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The Role of Social Agency in Student Learning
… has received considerable support in the laboratory, there is little work examining its generalizability, ecological validity, and potential for statistical mediation and moderation. In 5 experiments, these topics are examined in the laboratory as well as in a real classroom setting. Experiment …
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Reducing Narcissistic Defensiveness Through the Activation of Belonging
… mask underlying feelings of inferiority and a need for love and acceptance. People with high levels of narcissism defend their inflated self-evaluations through chronic self-enhancement processes, which can have negative consequences for their relationship functioning. The current research …
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Introversion and the Use of Parasocial Interaction to Satisfy Belongingness Needs
<p>Individuals usually satisfy the universal need to belong through close personal relationships (Baumeister & Leary, 1995). However, introverts engage less in the social behaviors that provide the opportunity to establish and maintain these relationships (Mehl, Gosling, & Pennebaker, 2006; Rusting …
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Examining the Interrelationship of Motivation and Place Attachment in a Residential 4-H Camping Environment
… between motivation, place attachment, and the need to belong in a residential camping environment. The purpose of this study was to better understand the role of place attachment and the need to belong in facilitating 4-H Camp Graham campers and counselors interest in returning to residential …
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Telework and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Underexplored Roles of Social Identity and Professional Isolation
… performance. The main focus of this study was to identify the mediating processes that explain the relationship between telework frequency and OCB performance, and to determine whether personality moderates the psychological consequences of teleworking. Survey data were collected from 286 …
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Understanding the Relationship Between Undergraduate Students’ On-Campus Employment Status and Their Reported Sense of Belonging to the Campus Community Post the COVID-19 Pandemic
<p>Belonging has been studied for decades with many researchers concluding that humans have an inherent need to belong. Although each person’s level of need to belong differs, it is a deeply rooted human motivation that impacts a person’s feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. Individuals develop a …
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Group-Oriented Practices of Middle School Counselors
This study is an investigation into the middle school counseling programs that facilitate the early adolescent need to belong to a group. Particular focus is on the effectiveness of teacher-advisory programs, peer mediation programs, and group counseling programs, and how all three programs work …
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Impacts of Race/Ethnicity and Self-Esteem on Body Dissatisfaction in Women
… United States, there is a push for individuals to be of a particular size, and for women, that ideal size is extremely thin (Katzmarzyk & Davis, 2001). Overall, females indicate a greater drive for thinness and put more emphasis on weight and shape salience than do men (Anderson & Bulik, 2001), …
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A Qualitative Exploration of Cultic Experience in Relation to Mental Health Difficulties
… about such groups that leads some former members to experience them as producing lasting harm. The methodology of Classical Grounded Theory is identified as the most suitable for this enquiry and two interrelated studies using Classical Grounded Theory are reported. The first gives rise to a …
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The effects of social-exclusion inducing stereotype threat
… of one’s group. Social exclusion has been shown to threaten the need to belong. Both stereotype threat and social exclusion have many common links: Each affects an individual’s self-views, feelings, and each impact one’s ability to focus cognitive faculties to perform well on cognitive tests. …
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Secondary school pupils’ experiences of managed moves: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
… another school, often when the pupil is deemed to be at risk of permanent exclusion. Little research on managed moves has been published to date in spite of their prevalence in English and Welsh schools over the past decade. Existing research has largely focused on the views of professionals …
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Playing alone, feeling connected: do single-player video games with social surrogates replenish belonging after social rejection
People have a fundamental need to belong—to be accepted, loved, and cared for. The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened people’s sense of belonging; people had to isolate themselves from others due to the stay-at-home orders. At the same time in early 2020, people started to spend more time playing …
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Psychological and neural mechanisms of stay/leave decision making
… on a social partner or nonsocial resource to increase their monetary outcomes. Both actual and expected reward probability of social partners and nonsocial resources positively affected the time participants decided to stay with a specific social partner or nonsocial resource. The effect of …
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Collaborating for children's mental health : a study of the experiences of health and social care practitioners and managers working within different models of service integration
The fragmented history of collaboration across health and social care is an acknowledged problem in public services in the United Kingdom. For several decades Government policy documents have recommended improved collaboration to tackle problems associated with people's satisfaction with the …
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Investing in our young people: Akaupokotuanga i ta tatou mapu no te au tuatau ki mua
… this thesis is based. The aim of this study is to address concerns about young people by developing a health promotion model in a Cook Islands context for young people in the Vaka Takitumu, a specific district of Rarotonga, and to contribute to scholarly debates on youth development. As a key …
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