| Summary: | This study examined how students report the relationship
between feelings of mattering at school and how their needs are
being met while at school. The study included 134 students, in
grades nine through twelve, in five alternative programs in
Vancouver, B.C. The meeting of students needs and the measurement
of perceptions of mattering were determined through the use of two
questionnaires. The instrument measuring needs fulfilment employed
scales relating to security, social, esteem and self
actualization needs. The questionnaire measuring perceptions of
mattering utilized scales measuring perceptions of importance,
attention, dependence and ego - extension. The results showed
strong correlations between the meeting of student needs and
perceptions of mattering while in attendance at school. === Education, Faculty of === Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of === Graduate
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