Do We Feel the Same? Sense of Belonging at University in Italy: A Pilot Study to Measure Students’ Levels of Attachment Among Programs
SSRN, ISSN: 1556-5068
2024
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Article Description
Developing the sense of community at university is becoming a hot topic within higher education’s environments.The aim of this research is to detect how this feeling of attachment is rated by students attending two groups of programs inside the Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement from the University of Palermo, one of the biggest universities in Southern Italy.Merging all the courses from Psychology and Pedagogy in one signifying the Social Sciences programs (PEP) we compared this to the courses from Sport and Exercise Sciences programs (SEP). We gathered 201 replies answering the University Students Belonging Scale (USBS) that ranking differently: indeed, students coming from SEP have shown higher level of sense of belonging, both in total scale and subscales.We have explored results furthermore analyzing scores among the subscales and we found noteworthy the fact that students have expressed higher satisfaction, on the one hand, in relation to items evaluating the perception of the self-identity within the academic context and, on the other hand, evaluating the quality of the relationship with peers and professionals. In our view, institutional context plays a central role in the way it makes students feel engaged and cared, correspondingly effecting motivation and academic performance.
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Elsevier BV
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