Relationship of Interpersonal Solidarity and Student Engagement with Psychological Well-being (original) (raw)

Studying the reliability, validity and factor analysis of student engagement scale (case study: students of Karaj city)

Educational Measurement and Evaluation Studies, 2017

The purpose of the present study was to examine the factor structure, reliability and validity of students’ engagement scale. Participants were 450 junior (225 boys and 225 girls) high school students in Karaj, who were selected through random cluster sampling. The results of exploratory factor analysis and principal component analysis confirmed three factors (cognitive, emotional and behavioral engagement) in addition to the general factor of students’ engagement. Cronbach's alpha coefficients for its subscale ranged from 0.67 to 0.78. Moreover، the results of the confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the structure of the scale had an acceptable fit to the data and all the goodness-of-fit indices confirmed the model. The results of the factor analysis and the reliability and validity coefficients were almost similar to the previous researches conducted in the main culture. Considering its good psychometric properties، the scale is a useful tool for determining student's outcome expectancy.

School Engagement of High School Students

Students’ high academic achievement, positive peer relationship, and regular attendance to school may affect their school engagement. Many researches can be found in the literature which introduce that students who have high school engagement continue their lives as happier and more successful individuals. The aim of this study is to test the correlation of school engagement of High School students with absenteeism, academic achievement, peer relationships and fear of failure variables by regression analysis. Study group of this research consists of 269 (52.2%) girls and 246 (47.8%) boys, 515 students in total who study at High Schools in Ankara during 2014-2015 academic year. Data were collected through School Engagement Scale which was developed by Arastaman (2006), Fear of Failure Scale which was developed by Kandemir (2012), Peer Relationships Scale which was developed by Bukowski, Hoza and Bolvin (1994) and was adapted in Turkish by Atik, Çoban, Çok, Doğan and Kahraman (2014), and Personal Information Form which was developed by the researchers of this study. The data of this descriptive study was tested by multiple hierarchic regression analysis. SPSS was used for analysis. According to findings obtained; school engagement is predicted meaningfully by absenteeism and peer relationships variables, but it is not predicted by academic achievement and fear of failure variables. Findings were discussed under the light of related literature and suggestions were presented.

Positive Psychosocial Factors Associated with the University Student’s Engagement

The Open Psychology Journal

Background: Student’s performance comes from the engagement they have with the academic activities of their institution. This conviction is determined by multiple factors both internal and external. Student´s engagement is a key factor in academic performance at the university. Objective: The aim of this study of this study was to find the relationship between the factors of emotional intelligence, orientation to happiness and positive social relationships within the school with the engagement of university students in a population of Mexico. Method: A stratified probabilistic sampling of students from a public higher education institution in the city of Guaymas, Sonora, was conducted. A total of 226 students answered the self-report, 52% were women, and 48% were men. A model of structural equations was performed to evaluate the relationships between the studied factors. Results: The results show that positive factors, both social (relationships with teachers and classmates) and per...

Development and Validation of Student Engagement Scale in the Indian Context

This article reports the development and validation of a student engagement scale (SES), as tested on a sample of 166 respondents from a management school located in the National Capital Region (NCR). The SES is a 41-item self-reporting questionnaire that measures three facets of student engagement namely, sense of belonging, individual engagement and collaborative engagement. The sub-scales had high internal consistency and test-retest reliability. All the three dimensions of student engagement were positively and significantly related to management skill, a criterion variable. Regression analysis revealed that individual engagement and collaborative engagement explained a significant amount of variance in management skill. Thus, the engagement scales demonstrated predictive validity. The usage of engagement scales for educational practices is discussed and future research directions are highlighted

Analysis of students school engagement in terms of friendship and teachers behavior

Educational Research and Reviews, 2016

The main goal of this study is to analyze "Students' school engagement in terms of friendship and teacher behaviors". The population of the study is all students at 4 th grade within the boundaries of İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The data of the study were gathered from 2066 students from 62 schools. "School Engagement Scale", "Peer Attachment Scale" and "Perceived Teacher Behaviors Scale" were used apart from an information form developed by the researcher. Multiple Regression Analysis, T-test and one-way analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. Results show that; students' relationship with their friends predicts school engagement most. Female students have a higher level of school engagement. Students who do cultural and sports activities, those who get support from counseling service and those who do not have a problem with transportation have a higher level of school engagement. Students in crowded classrooms have a lower level of school engagement. It is reckoned that this study is significant in terms of presenting negative variables affecting students' engagement in school which has an important role in their personal and social lives and in terms of taking necessary precautions.

Determining the Role of Social Support in predicting Academic Engagement with the Mediation of Empathy in High School Students

Iranian Evolutionary Educational Psychology Journal, 2022

Academic engagement is a crucial construct in educational psychology. Academic engagement depends on a range of aspects that are associated to student characteristics, teacher, teaching methods, peers, and school features. This research aimed to examine the role of social support in predicting academic engagement mediated by empathy in high school students. We used a descriptive correlation design and examined the proposed model via structural equation modeling. The studied population included all female high school students of Baharestan, Tehran (Iran) in 2022. Participants were 320 people were selected by accessible sampling method. We used the Vaux social support appraisals (SS-A) scale, Fredricks school engagement and Adolescent Measure of Empathy and Sympathy (AMES) to collect data. Our results indicated that social support has a direct and positive effect on empathy (P< .01, β= .556) and empathy has a direct positive effect on students' academic engagement as well (P< .01, β= .329). Furthermore, social support affects students' academic engagement both directly (P < .01, β = .486) and through empathy (P < .01, β = .183). Overall, the results of this study exhibited that empathy can play a mediating role in the relationship between social support and students' academic engagement. The results point to the importance of considering emotional and social factors as predictors of academic engagement in high school students.

Life Satisfaction and Student Engagement in Adolescents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2010

Situated within a positive psychology perspective, this study explored linkages between adolescent students' positive subjective well-being and their levels of engagement in schooling. Specifically, using structural equation modeling techniques, we evaluated the nature and directionality of longitudinal relationships between life satisfaction and student engagement variables. It was hypothesized that adolescents' life satisfaction and student engagement variables would show bidirectional relationships. To test this hypothesis, 779 students (53% female, 62% Caucasian) in a Southeastern US middle school completed a measure of global life satisfaction and measures of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral engagement at two time points, 5 months apart. A statistically significant bidirectional relationship between life satisfaction and cognitive engagement was found; however, non-significant relationships were found between life satisfaction and emotional and behavioral student engagement. The findings provide important evidence of the role of early adolescents' life satisfaction in their engagement in schooling during the important transition grades between elementary and high school. The findings also help extend the positive psychology perspective to the relatively neglected context of education.

School Engagement of Secondary School Students in Kerala

School engagement is the students' relationships with teachers, peers, rules, and their involvement in extra-curricular activities and curriculum and instruction. Influence of School engagement can be found in participation in school activities, reactions to people and the environment, and the desire to complete tasks and acquire skills. The present study focuses on finding out the main and interaction effects of sex and type of management on different dimensions of school engagement. The study was conducted on 523 secondary school students from Government, Aided, Unaided and Tribal schools of Kerala and data was collected using a Five point Likert type scale on School Engagement. Results of Two Way ANOVA revealed that main and interaction effects of sex and type of management on School Engagement are significant.

A re-engagement model to overcome the psychological distress of students

International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)

COVID-19 lockdowns and lack of social interaction increased academic disengagement among students in India. This study aims to identify the student engagement pitfalls and the prevalent psychological distress in higher education institutions (HEIs) in India prior to the pandemic and during the same. An exploratory research design is adopted by executing a purposive sampling technique. Researchers collected data from undergraduate students of the top five universities, verified 600 consistent responses, and tested the hypothesis using relevant research tools. Results display that psychological distress (PD) is inversely correlated to student engagement (SE) and negatively impacts it. Researchers introduced a novel re-engagement model called “CAIS”, which is the combination of four variables, creativity, physical activity (PA), internship, service learning (SL), and tested their relationship with PD and SE. Each variable under CAIS shows an inverse correlation with PD and positively i...