School of Psychology, Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal, King George V Avenue, Durban 4001, South Africa.
J Sch Health. 2013 Sep;83(9):614-22. doi: 10.1111/josh.12073.
This study investigated the relationship between school connectedness and health risk behaviors, specifically, substance abuse, violence-related behaviors, sexual risk behaviors, and suicidal ideation among school-going adolescents. School connectedness was understood to encompass a range of aspects pertaining to a learner's sense of belonging to the school. We hypothesized that strong perceptions of school connectedness will more likely be associated with lower levels of risk behaviors among school-going adolescents.
The study was conducted in 2 neighboring public co-educational schools in Durban, South Africa. Independent measures assessed school connectedness, substance abuse, violence-related behaviors, sexual risk behaviors, and suicidal ideation.
Strong negative correlations were found between adolescents' perceptions of school connectedness and the 4 health risk behaviors, particularly suicidal ideation. The relative importance of risk factors was also evidenced in the sample.
Adolescents with lower perceptions of school connectedness were more likely to engage in various risk behaviors, supporting the literature that a lack of school connectedness can act as a risk factor for adolescent involvement in clustering of risk behaviors. Further the relative weighting of individual risk factors, it is argued, was an effect of the sociocultural context of the study.
本研究旨在探讨学校归属感与健康风险行为之间的关系，特别是在在校青少年中，物质滥用、暴力相关行为、性风险行为和自杀意念等方面。学校归属感被理解为涵盖了与学生对学校归属感相关的一系列方面。我们假设，强烈的学校归属感更有可能与在校青少年的低风险行为水平相关。
该研究在南非德班的 2 所相邻的男女混合公立学校进行。独立的测量方法评估了学校归属感、物质滥用、暴力相关行为、性风险行为和自杀意念。
青少年对学校归属感的强烈负面感知与 4 种健康风险行为之间存在显著的负相关关系，尤其是自杀意念。风险因素的相对重要性在样本中也得到了证明。
对学校归属感较低的青少年更有可能参与各种风险行为，这支持了缺乏学校归属感会成为青少年参与风险行为集群的风险因素的文献。此外，有人认为，个别风险因素的相对权重是研究的社会文化背景的影响。
