Citation

Pikulski PJ, Pella JE, Casline EP, Hale AE, Drake K, Ginsburg GS. J. Psychol. Counsell. Sch. 2020; 30(1): 13-24.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/jgc.2020.3

PMID

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Abstract

Poor school connectedness (SC), defined as students' feelings of belonging, safety, and fairness at school, is a risk factor for negative psychosocial outcomes. Few studies have examined the specific relationship between SC and anxiety. This study examined the relation between SC and anxiety within a group of 114 clinically anxious youth (mean age = 10.82; SD = 2.93; 48.2% female; 70.2% White, non-Hispanic); age differences were also examined.

RESULTS indicated that SC was significantly negatively associated with age but unrelated to gender, race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, parent education, or presence of a comorbid disorder.

FINDINGS generally revealed that low SC was associated with greater total and domain specific anxiety. SC may play a unique role in the maintenance of global and domain specific anxiety symptoms.

Language: en

Keywords

child anxiety; school-connectedness