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Adolescent Adjustment Problems Mediate the Association between Racial Discrimination and School Connectedness
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Fernandez, Alejandra; Loukas, Alexandra; Golaszewski, Natalie M.; Batanova, Milena; Pasch, Keryn E. – Journal of School Health, 2019
Background: Whereas previous research suggests a positive association between racial discrimination and early adolescent adjustment problems, few studies examine the relationship between discrimination and school connectedness as it relates to adjustment problems among Hispanic early adolescents. In this study, we examined if depressive symptoms…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Middle School Students, Hispanic American Students, Racial Discrimination
Perceived Weight Discrimination and School Connectedness among Youth: Does Teacher Support Play a Protective Role?
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Golaszewski, Natalie M.; Pasch, Keryn E.; Fernandez, Alejandra; Poulos, Natalie S.; Batanova, Milena; Loukas, Alexandra – Journal of School Health, 2018
Bsckground: Weight discrimination has been associated with poor academic performance and decreased school attendance. Little is known about weight discrimination and students' feelings of belonging to their school. This study examined the association between weight discrimination and school connectedness among adolescents. Teacher support was…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Social Discrimination, Low Achievement, Attendance
Trajectories of School Connectedness across the Middle School Years: Examining the Roles of Adolescents' Internalizing and Externalizing Problems
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Loukas, Alexandra; Cance, Jessica Duncan; Batanova, Milena – Youth & Society, 2016
Students become increasingly disconnected from their schools across the middle school years, but little is known about the factors contributing to changes in school connectedness. This study examined the time-invariant and time-varying roles of depressive symptoms and externalizing problems in trajectories of student-perceived school connectedness…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Grade 6
What Are the Unique and Interacting Contributions of School and Family Factors to Early Adolescents' Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking?
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Batanova, Milena D.; Loukas, Alexandra – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
Empathy in children has received considerable attention in the literature, but limited research has investigated the contributions of various socializing factors on both affective (e.g., empathic concern) and cognitive (e.g., perspective taking) components of empathy in early adolescents. Guided by socialization theories, this study examined the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Conflict
Does School Connectedness Buffer the Impact of Peer Victimization on Early Adolescents' Subsequent Adjustment Problems?
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Loukas, Alexandra; Pasch, Keryn E. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
The current study examined the role of school connectedness as a moderator of the associations between overt and relational forms of peer victimization and early adolescents' subsequent adjustment problems. Data were collected from 490 adolescents when they were initially in the sixth and seventh grades and again 1 year later. Regression analyses…
Descriptors: Victims, Bullying, Peer Relationship, Adjustment (to Environment)
Examining Competing Models of the Associations among Peer Victimization, Adjustment Problems, and School Connectedness
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Loukas, Alexandra; Ripperger-Suhler, Ken G.; Herrera, Denise E. – Journal of School Psychology, 2012
The present study tested two competing models to assess whether psychosocial adjustment problems mediate the associations between peer victimization and school connectedness one year later, or if peer victimization mediates the associations between psychosocial adjustment problems and school connectedness. Participants were 500 10- to 14-year-old…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Victims
School Connectedness Buffers the Effects of Negative Family Relations and Poor Effortful Control on Early Adolescent Conduct Problems
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Loukas, Alexandra; Roalson, Lori A.; Herrera, Denise E. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2010
This study examined the unique and interactive contributions of school connectedness, negative family relations, and effortful control to subsequent early adolescent conduct problems. Data were collected from 476 adolescents when they were initially in the 6th and 7th grades and again 1 year later. Results from hierarchical regression analyses…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Student School Relationship, Family Relationship
Examining Temporal Associations between School Connectedness and Early Adolescent Adjustment
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Loukas, Alexandra; Ripperger-Suhler, Ken G.; Horton, Karissa D. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
This study examined (a) the associations between school connectedness and early adolescent adjustment problems over a 1 year period and (b) the equivalence of these associations across gender. Five hundred middle school students (53.4% female), initially in the 6th and 7th grades, participated in the two-wave study. Results from two-group…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adjustment (to Environment), Student School Relationship, Gender Differences