Two experiments examined for the first time whether the specific content of participant-generated affirmation essays-in particular, writing about social belonging-facilitated an affirmation intervention's ability to reduce identity threat among negatively stereotyped students. Study 1, a field experiment, revealed that seventh graders assigned to a values-affirmation condition wrote about socia...

The importance of belonging, of fitting in, feeling included and accepted is implicit in empirical studies of women’s entrepreneurship. There remains, however, little direct attention to belonging as a concept. This article is novel in proposing belonging as a mediatory and explanatory concept to better understand the relationship between women entrepreneurs and socially embedded gendered assum...

School is an environment which brings out students’ hidden talents. Paying attention to an appropriate context and environment has a huge impact on achieving this goal. The purpose of this study was to determine and evaluate semantic factors provided by experts influence students’ sense of belonging at high school students in terms of Iranian experts. To this end, firstly data were collected th...

This article examines the ways that Danish gang exit programs engage police officers and defectors in a pervasive work on belonging between gangs, kinship networks state. In urban Denmark, majority of candidates are ethnic-minority background form part street-gang environment marginalized migrant neighborhoods. is an intimate social constituted by diasporic networks, where formations entangled ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore belonging in relation postgraduate wellbeing the light renewed concerns about mental health and group learners. It attends postgraduates’ subjective wellbeing, identifying ways which intertwined with a sense belonging. Belonging situated social domains experiences. This seeks contribute in-depth understandings experiences, make recommendations for...

This study examined the role of social belonging and self-esteem in acute physical health and mood in 159 young adolescents (aged 11 to 14 years). Standardized self-report measures of belongingness (school, home and community), self-esteem, acute physical symptoms, and affect, were completed for the previous month. Higher levels of inclusive belonging were associated with fewer physical symptom...