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Feelings Of Belonging Affect School Children

September 11, 2009 by

The extent to which a child feels they belong at home, school and in the community may impact on their physical health as well as their psychological well-being. This is the finding of a paper presented at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Health Psychology annual conference at Aston University, today, 10th September 2009. The study was carried out by Fiona Begen and Dr Julie Turner-Cobb from the University of Bath.