School Relations and Solitude in Early Adolescence: A Mediation Model Involving Rejection Sensitivity

Autor/inn/en	Molinari, Luisa; Grazia, Valentina; Corsano, Paola
Titel	School Relations and Solitude in Early Adolescence: A Mediation Model Involving Rejection Sensitivity
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 40 (2020) 3, S.426-448 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Molinari, Luisa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/0272431619847523
Schlagwörter	Early Adolescents; Social Isolation; Rejection (Psychology); Middle School Students; Foreign Countries; Teacher Student Relationship; Student Attitudes; Psychological Patterns; Expectation; Peer Acceptance; Student Welfare; Suburban Schools; Friendship; Educational Environment; Peer Relationship; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Isolation; Ablehnung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Ausland; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Schülerverhalten; Expectancy; Erwartung; Studentenseelsorge; Suburban area; Outskirts; Suburb; School; Schools; Vorort; Vorstadt; Schule; Freundschaft; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Peer-Beziehungen; Italien
Abstract	Rejection sensitivity (RS) is a cognitive and affective disposition to defensively expect, perceive, and overreact to signs of rejection by others. The current study examined the role of RS as a mediating mechanism underlying the relation between school relations with peers and teachers and solitude in early adolescence. Italian middle school students (N = 656; females = 50.9%; X[bar][subscript age]=12.24) reported their RS, quality of relationships with their friends and teachers, peer-related loneliness, and attitudes toward aloneness. The results showed direct associations between school relations and RS components, as well as between RS and the three dimensions of solitude. Moreover, structural equation models showed that anxious RS and RS expectations, but not angry RS, mediated the association between school relations and solitude. The present study contributes to our understanding of the key mechanisms underlying the association between school relations and solitude. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01