School belongingness and mental health functioning across the primary-secondary transition in a mainstream sample: multi-group cross-lagged analyses.

The relationship between school belongingness and mental health functioning before and after the primary-secondary school transition has not been previously investigated in students with and without disabilities. This study used a prospective longitudinal design to test the bi-directional relationsh...

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Main Authors: Sharmila Vaz, Marita Falkmer, Richard Parsons, Anne Elizabeth Passmore, Timothy Parkin, Torbjörn Falkmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4072543?pdf=render