The Reciprocal Relationship between School Connectedness and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: A Meta-analytic Cross-lagged Panel Analysis.

Theorists have long assumed that school connectedness and depressive symptoms influence each other in adolescence. However, previous empirical studies on the strength and direction of this relationship have yielded inconsistent results. The present study used cross-lagged modeling to meta-analyze th...

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Published in:	Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 54; no. 10; pp. 2574 - 2593
Main Authors:	Meng, Xianxin, Chen, Yijing, Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz, Xu, Lujia, Yu, Delin, Harrell, Danielle R.
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Oct2025
Subjects:	Mental depression risk factors School environment Mental health services Adolescent health Sex distribution Culture Schools Affinity groups Age distribution Social integration Psychology Interpersonal relations Social support Teacher-student relationships Mental depression Adolescence Risk assessment Research funding CINAHL database Meta-analysis Structural equation modeling Severity of illness index Systematic reviews MEDLINE Statistics Conceptual structures Online information services Confidence intervals Theory Data analysis software
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