Congratulations— SO happy for you!!!

I argue that historically, educational and social psychology have largely equated belonging with social connectedness. Social connectedness is, of course, essential for belonging.

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WOW!!! This is such great news! I'm more hit or miss for seeing things on academic social media now, so I'm sorry I missed this initially, but I'm so excited to come on and see this news. Very happy to see your excellent work acknowledged in this way!

I don't work much with that age group, but both major K-12 belonging meta-analyses exclude elementary school/primary school students (Allen et al., 2018; Korpershoek et al., 2020). This paper is one option (but called engagement: doi.org/10.1037/a002...) or (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)

I think you would have to adapt it for children like we do with math anxiety, likely defining what you mean by belonging or comfort or acceptance, making sure they understood, & then likely use pictures to have them point to the one that matches their feelings bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.wustl....

For college students (psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-...). For adolescents (and generally the most popular measure), PSSM (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1.... A short, 4-item scale for adolescents (psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-...). A discussion of measures (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...).