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Article: Promoting school connectedness: evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. (Research Papers).(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Journal of School Health
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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When adolescents feel cared for by people at their school and feel like a part of their school, they are less likely to use substances, engage in violence, or initiate sexual activity at an early age. Students who feel connected to school in this way also report higher levels of emotional well-being. (1-3) In an analysis of risk and protective factors for eight different health risk outcomes among adolescents, Resnick et al (1) identified school connectedness as the only school-related variable that was protective for every single outcome.
Intervention research suggests that the relationship may be causal: increasing students' sense of connectedness to school ...