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Students' engagement in school : analyses according to peer victimization and grade, throughout adolescence

Publication . Veiga, Feliciano Henriques; Caldeira, Suzana Nunes

Conceptual Frame: In recent years, students' engagement in school (SES) has been pointed out a mean to prevent and address the occurrence of victimization behaviors between students, either as aggressors or as victims; however, there is a lack of empirical studies on the relationship between these constructs, throughout adolescence. Objective: To study how the relationships between SES and victimization behaviors vary throughout the adolescence years of schooling is the aim of the present study. Method: The sample consisted of 685 students from different regions of the country, of both sexes, divided by grade (6th, 7th, 9th and 10th). Data were collected in classroom context through a survey that included items from the "Multidimensional Peer Victimization Scale" and the questionnaire "Student's Engagement in School - A Four Dimensional Scale (SES-4DS)", which includes a cognitive, an affective, a behavioral and an agentic dimension (Veiga, 2013). Results: The results from the analysis of engagement variance (anova two-way 2x3), according to grade (6th and 7th versus 9th and 10th grades) and peer victimization (low, medium and high), allowed to find a decrease throughout schooling years, either in SES, as in peer victimization behaviors (PVB); the significant effects of the interaction of the variables PV and grade emerged only in the cognitive and behavioral dimensions, and were due to a larger decrease in such dimensions, in the group with higher PVB, throughout the years. Conclusions: results are considered within the context of social-cognitive perspective of development; and suggest further deeper analyses, in addition to activation measures of variables such as students' engagement in school, as a form to diminish peer victimization conducts.

2014-03Conference object

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Envolvimento dos alunos na escola : conceito e relação com o desempenho académico : sua importância na formação de professores.

Publication . Veiga, Feliciano Henriques; Festas, Isabel; Taveira, Céu; Galvão, Diana; Janeiro, Isabel; Conboy, Joseph; Carvalho, Carolina; Caldeira, Suzana Nunes; Melo, Madalena; Pereira, Tiago; Almeida, Ana; Bahia, Sara; Nogueira, João

O conceito de envolvimento dos alunos na escola tem vindo a ser colocado no cerne das discussões relacionadas com o sucesso académico e com o abandono escolar. Este estudo faz uma revisão de literatura acerca deste conceito e das suas relações com o desempenho académico, destacando a sua importância no âmbito da formação de professores. Vários estudos sustentam que a falta de envolvimento dos alunos aparece associada ao baixo desempenho académico, a problemas de comportamento e ao abandono escolar. O envolvimento dos alunos na escola apresenta-se, na literatura revista, como uma resposta eficaz para os problemas que afetam as escolas e os seus alunos, como um aspeto a ter em conta na prevenção de padrões de comportamento problemático em contexto escolar e, portanto, como um conceito transdisciplinar de elevada importância na formação de professores.

2012Journal article

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