Adolescents' Stage-Environment Fit in Middle and High School: The Relationship between Students' Perceptions of Their Schools and Themselves

Autor/inn/en	Booth, Margaret Zoller; Gerard, Jean M.
Titel	Adolescents' Stage-Environment Fit in Middle and High School: The Relationship between Students' Perceptions of Their Schools and Themselves
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 46 (2014) 6, S.735-755 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X12451276
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Middle School Students; High School Students; Developmental Stages; Student Attitudes; Correlation; Age Differences; Grade 7; Grade 8; Grade 9; Grade 10; Gender Differences; Institutional Characteristics; School Attitudes; Self Efficacy; Statistical Analysis; Self Esteem; Mixed Methods Research; Longitudinal Studies; Adolescent Development; Student Surveys; Semi Structured Interviews; Qualitative Research; Ohio; Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Schülerverhalten; Korrelation; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Geschlechterkonflikt; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Statistische Analyse; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Schülerbefragung; Qualitative Forschung
Abstract	This mixed-methods longitudinal project investigates the association between student perceptions of their schools and themselves. Findings from the first two waves of data analysis with 894 middle and high school students in a midsized Great Lakes city reveal similarities and differences between the grade levels (7th-10th) and their perceptions of their schools. Although 7th-grade students enter middle school with the most positive feelings about their schools, they lose this feeling of euphoria by the end of their academic year. In contrast, the 10th-grade females are the most positive of all students, recognizing school characteristics which assist with their self-efficacy. Results from quantitative analyses indicate that student attitudes toward school and a sense of school connectedness are linked to both self-esteem and academic self-efficacy. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10