Family and school context in school engagement

Students ’ engagement in school and family variables : A literature review

“Students’ engagement in school” is regarded in the literature as a current and valued construct despite the lack of empirical studies on its relationship with specific family variables. The present research aimed to survey studies on the correlation between students’ engagement in school and family contexts, specifically in terms of the following variables: perceived parental support, socioeco...

High school dropouts: interactions between social context, self-perceptions, school engagement, and student dropout.

Research suggests that contextual, self-system, and school engagement variables influence dropping out from school. However, it is not clear how different types of contextual and self-system variables interact to affect students' engagement or contribute to decisions to dropout from high school. The self-system model of motivational development represents a promising theory for understanding th...

School context, achievement motivation, and academic engagement: A longitudinal study of school engagement using a multidimensional perspective

This longitudinal study adopts a multidimensional perspective to examine the relationships between middle school students’ perceptions of the school environment (structure support, provision of choice, teaching for relevance, teacher and peer emotional support), achievement motivation (academic selfconcept and subjective task value), and school engagement (behavioral, emotional, and cognitive e...

Perceived Social Support, School Engagement and Satisfaction with School

There is evidence that social support from families, peers and teachers has an influence on student engagement, academic success, and satisfaction with school. The aim of this work is to use structural equations to analyze the effects of the perceived academic support and the school engagement on the satisfaction with school. A battery of measurement tools was administered to 2028 Angolan stude...

Diabetes family school: benefits and difficulties