Peers and teachers as the best source of social support for school engagement for both advantaged and priority education area students.

ABSTRACT: Promoting student's school engagement is a major goal in our society. The literature has shown that students' proximal sources of social support can play a fundamental role in facilitating this engagement. The purpose of this study was (1) to compare perceived support from four sources (mother, father, teacher, and peers) as a function of two different middle-school student backgrounds, a priority education area and a privileged area; (2) and (3) to examine the contribution of these main sources of social support, either directly or indirectly (through sense of school belonging) to school engagement; and (4) to test whether perceived social support is more strongly related to school engagement, directly or indirectly, among students from priority education school compared to students from

SUBMITTER: Martinot D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9537635 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature