Abstract:

The sense of belonging to the school refers to the personal feelings of the students about how much approval they have from other people in the school, how much they are respected, how much they are included in the activities and supported. The aim of this study is to examine high school students' sense of belonging to school in terms of social well-being. In this study, the mixed methods research, which involves quantitative and qualitative research methods, was used. For quantitative method, PISA 2015 data and for qualitative method, semi-structured interview form was used. Quantitative sample is composed of 5895 high school students in the age group of 15 reached through PISA survey in 2015. The qualitative study group consists of 12 students. After a series of calculations were made to determine the suitability of the data for statistical analysis, parametric and non-parametric analyzes were performed. When the findings of the study are examined, it has been found that there is a meaningful relationship between the family relations, teacher relations, family support sub-dimensions and the school belonging together with social well-being of the students in the quantitative study, but not meaningful relations with peer relations. In qualitative findings, the results have been reached match and support the quantitative findings. The findings have been discussed coherently and suggestions have been made. 

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