Two recent studies suggest the importance of belonging in school. First, Rambaran, Hoffman, Rivas-Drake, Schaefer, Umaña-Taylor & Ryan (2022) published “Belonging in Diverse Contexts: Sociability among same-ethnic and cross-ethnic peers” in Psychology. Here’s the abstract:

King, Chiu & Du (2022) published “Greater Income Inequality, Lower School Belonging: Multilevel and cross-temporal analyses of 65 countries” in Journal of Educational Psychology.