School Belonging Sense for High School Adolescence: The Relationship with Hopelessness and Loneliness

Abstract

The aim of the study is to search weather hopelessness and loneliness can predict school belonging sense for adolescence in a public high school in Turkey. The sample contains 189 high school students from 9th and 10th grade. School Belonging Sense Scale, Beck Hopelessness Scale and UCLA Loneliness Scale Short form were used to collect the data. Collected data was analyzed with descriptive
statistics, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multi-regression methods. The most important research result is that loneliness and hopelessness can predict the sense of school belonging for high school students. Loneliness and hopelessness explained 27% of the total variance of school belonging. Another result is hopelessness and loneliness have a negative relationship with sense of school belonging.