Health Education Journal CHING ZHI HANG

PISMP S6 PJM 1

Pengenalan :

Student- and school-level belonging and commitment and studentsmoking, drinking and
misbehavior

Objektif :

Finding associations with smoking tobacco, use of alcohol and illicit drugs, and violence.

Sample Kajian :

Total of 40 schools in south-east England.

Analisis :

Step 1: selecting appropriate models and calculating intra-class correlation coefficients.

Step 2: estimating associations between VAE and student outcomes.

Step 3: estimating associations between lack of academic commitment and sense of belonging
with student risk behaviours.

Dapatan :

Of eligible students, 6,667 (93.6%) completed questionnaires. Of these, 6,474 (97%) reported
on ever smoking; 6,414 (96%) reported on ever drinking alcohol; and 6,265 (94%) responded to
school misbehaviour scale items.

Perbincanagn :

There was no evidence of an association between school-level VAE and any risk behaviours
among students aged 1112 years. Lower school-level student academic commitment was
associated with increases in smoking and reporting school misbehaviour, and lower school-level
belonging was associated with increases in use of alcohol.