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Date of Graduation
Summer 2011
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Educational Specialist (EdS)
Department
Department of Graduate Psychology
Advisor(s)
Deborah Kipps-Vaughan
Patricia Warner
Tammy Gilligan
Abstract
Students of diverse populations have the highest risk of becoming disengaged from school and dropping out. This study investigated the relationship between extra-curricular activity participation and psychological school engagement among a group of fifty-three diverse middle school students. The sample studied mostly lived in the United States their entire lives, participated in extra-curricular activities, and reported being affectively “engaged” in school. Among the students studied, no correlation between participation in extra-curricular activities was observed. Students of all ethnicities reported similar levels of psychological school engagement. However, a difference was found in Hispanic/Latino students, in that those who had spent less than their entire life in the United States were involved less in extra-curricular activities than other ethnic groups.
Recommended Citation
Intagliata, Andrew, "Extra-curricular activity participation and psychological school engagement in ethnically diverse middle school students" (2011). Educational Specialist, 2009-2019. 54.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/edspec201019/54
