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Exploring Predictors of Sense of Belonging in Trinidad and Tobago
Journal of College Student Development ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/csd.2019.0057
Elizabeth Niehaus , Letitia Williams , Stephanie Zobac , Miles Young , Adam Fullerton

Abstract:Over the past two decades, Trinidad and Tobago has promoted explosive expansion of tertiary education. As with many growing postsecondary education systems, this increase in tertiary enrollment has led to the development of student support services (Haddad & Altbach, 2009). The field of student services is growing throughout the Caribbean (Reynolds, 2008), but there is currently little research on the role of student services in fostering students’ sense of belonging specific to the Caribbean cultural context. Using data from over 900 students at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, we examined students’ sense of belonging in the context of T&T. Findings point to the key role that student services professionals play in promoting students’ sense of belonging, but the limited interactions that students are having with student services staff and key differences by students’ race, religion, program level, and major should be noted. We also identified the indirect role of cocurricular engagement in promoting sense of belonging and the main barriers that prevent students from participating in more cocurricular activities. These findings have important implications for the work of student services professionals in T&T and also expand our understanding of constructs, such as student engagement and sense of belonging, ideas that have been well-researched in the US to a very different tertiary education system.

中文翻译:

探索特立尼达和多巴哥归属感的预测因素

摘要:近二十年来,特立尼达和多巴哥推动了高等教育的爆炸式扩张。与许多不断发展的高等教育系统一样,高等教育入学人数的增加导致了学生支持服务的发展(Haddad 和 Altbach,2009 年)。整个加勒比地区的学生服务领域正在发展(雷诺兹,2008 年),但目前很少有关于学生服务在培养学生对加勒比文化背景的归属感方面的作用的研究。我们使用来自特立尼达和多巴哥大学 900 多名学生的数据,研究了学生在 T&T 背景下的归属感。调查结果指出学生服务专业人员在促进学生归属感方面发挥的关键作用,但应注意学生与学生服务人员的有限互动以及学生种族、宗教、课程水平和专业的主要差异。我们还确定了课外活动在促进归属感方面的间接作用以及阻止学生参与更多课外活动的主要障碍。这些发现对 T&T 中学生服务专业人士的工作具有重要意义,并且还扩展了我们对结构的理解,例如学生参与度和归属感,这些在美国已被充分研究的思想适用于一个非常不同的高等教育系统。我们还确定了课外活动在促进归属感方面的间接作用以及阻止学生参与更多课外活动的主要障碍。这些发现对 T&T 中学生服务专业人士的工作具有重要意义,并且还扩展了我们对结构的理解,例如学生参与度和归属感,这些在美国已被充分研究的思想适用于一个非常不同的高等教育系统。我们还确定了课外活动在促进归属感方面的间接作用以及阻止学生参与更多课外活动的主要障碍。这些发现对 T&T 中学生服务专业人士的工作具有重要意义,并且还扩展了我们对结构的理解,例如学生参与度和归属感,这些在美国已被充分研究的思想适用于一个非常不同的高等教育系统。
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