Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
The Social Connectedness Scale includes 8 items and measures students' sense of connectedness, affiliation, and companionship to provide a broad picture of belongingness. The authors have an accompanying Social Assurance scale (which measures students' sense of companionship and affiliation) often administered in tandem with the Social Connectedness Scale.
Administration Information
Length
8 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Use in Research
Graham, J., & McClain, S. (2019). A canonical correlational analysis examining the relationship between peer mentorship, belongingness, imposter feelings, and black collegians' academic and psychosocial outcomes. American Educational Research Journal, 56(6), 2333-2367. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831219842571
Psychometrics
Psychometric References
Lee, R. M., & Robbins, S. B. (1995). Measuring belongingness: The Social Connectedness and the Social Assurance Scales. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 42, 232–241 https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0167.42.2.232
