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The Effect of School Culture on Adolescent Behavioural Problems: SelfEsteem, Attachment to Learning, and Peer Approval of Deviance as Mediating Mechanisms

David J. DeWit

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

David R. Offord

Canadian Centre for Studies of Children at Risk

Mark Sanford

McMaster University

Barbara J. Rye

St. Jerome's University

Martin Shain

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Robin Wright

School of Social Work, McGill University

Adopting a social ecological perspective, this study examined the role of adolescent personality and social traits as mediating mechanisms linking school culture with adolescent behavioural problems. Data were obtained from the self-reports of 1,100 grade nine students attending four southern Ontario high schools. Structural equation model results revealed that student exposure to an unfavourable school culture (marked by perceptions of low teacher and classmate support, student conflict, unfair school rules and disciplinary practices, and low student autonomy in school decision-making and affairs) was positively associated with low attachment to learning and peer approval of deviance each of which were positively associated with disciplinary problems, conduct disorder, oppositional-defiant disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity, and substance use. Low self-esteem emerged as a significant mediator in two models. Significant direct effects of school culture were found for most outcomes. Discussion focused on the significance of study findings for future program development and research.

Canadian Journal of School Psychology, Vol. 16, No. 1, 15-38 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/082957350001600102
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