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ERIC Number: EJ776353
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 8
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1598-1037
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Mainland Immigrant and Hong Kong Local Students' Psychological Sense of School Membership
Cheung, Hoi Yan; Hui, Sammy King Fai
Asia Pacific Education Review, v4 n1 p67-74 2003
A Chinese version of the Psychological Sense of School Membership (PSSM) scale was developed to find out the subjective PSSM of Mainland immigrant and local Hong Kong students. Five schools participated with 295 boys and 252 girls from Primary years 4, 5, and 6 taking part. Among those, 264 students were local Hong Kong students, while 283 were Mainland immigrant students who claimed that they had lived in Hong Kong for 7 years or less. The Chinese version of the PSSM scale was found to be reliable, and interestingly, Mainland immigrant students were found to have a significantly higher sense of school belonging, but had a lower feeling of rejection than Hong Kong students did. Results would be useful to understand how students feel towards support in school. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.) [Appended to this document is: "Appendix 1. The Chinese and English Versions of the Psychological Sense of School Membership (PSSM) Scale."]
Education Research Institute, Seoul National University. Department of Education, 599 Kwanak-Ro, Kwanak-Gu, Seoul 151-748, South Korea. Tel: +82-2-880-5896; Fax: +82-2-889-6508; e-mail: aper2@hanmail.net; Web site: http://eri.snu.ac.kr/aper
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China; Hong Kong
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