Relations among school assets, individual resilience, and student engagement for youth grouped by level of family functioning Export

@article{citeulike:4212001, abstract = {Given the importance of student engagement for healthy outcomes, research needs to investigate whether school-based assets promote student engagement beyond individual and family influences. Unfortunately, such research has been limited by a lack of valid instrumentation. After examining the psychometrics of the California Healthy Kids Survey Resilience Youth Development Module, we used this risk and resilience instrument with a randomly selected sample of 10,000 diverse 7th-, 9th-, and 11th-grade students to test a model of relations between school assets, individual resilience, and student engagement for students grouped by level of family assets. Although youth in the low family asset group reported lower student engagement, contrary to hypothesis, multigroup structural equation modeling revealed that school assets did not have a differential relation for low family asset youth compared to their high family asset peers. School assets were associated with student engagement for all groups, even accounting for individual resilience. Implications and future directions are provided. {\copyright} 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.}, address = {University of California, Santa Barbara}, author = {Sharkey, Jill D. and You, Sukkyung and Schnoebelen, Katrina}, citeulike-article-id = {4212001}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pits.20305}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/117952919/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/pits.20305}, journal = {Psychology in the Schools}, keywords = {beyond, engagement, family, maliable, variables}, number = {5}, pages = {402--418}, posted-at = {2009-03-24 02:06:42}, priority = {2}, title = {Relations among school assets, individual resilience, and student engagement for youth grouped by level of family functioning}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pits.20305}, volume = {45}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4212001 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4212001 N2 - Given the importance of student engagement for healthy outcomes, research needs to investigate whether school-based assets promote student engagement beyond individual and family influences. Unfortunately, such research has been limited by a lack of valid instrumentation. After examining the psychometrics of the California Healthy Kids Survey Resilience Youth Development Module, we used this risk and resilience instrument with a randomly selected sample of 10,000 diverse 7th-, 9th-, and 11th-grade students to test a model of relations between school assets, individual resilience, and student engagement for students grouped by level of family assets. Although youth in the low family asset group reported lower student engagement, contrary to hypothesis, multigroup structural equation modeling revealed that school assets did not have a differential relation for low family asset youth compared to their high family asset peers. School assets were associated with student engagement for all groups, even accounting for individual resilience. Implications and future directions are provided. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. IS - 5 JF - Psychology in the Schools AD - University of California, Santa Barbara EP - 418 TI - Relations among school assets, individual resilience, and student engagement for youth grouped by level of family functioning VL - 45 SP - 402 KW - beyond KW - engagement KW - family KW - maliable KW - variables AU - Sharkey, Jill AU - You, Sukkyung AU - Schnoebelen, Katrina PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pits.20305 ER -