Delighted to share @drkellyallen.bsky.social's paper reformulating the Integrative Framework of Belonging through interviews of other esteemed belonging researchers! This open-access paper does a deep dive on the theory––a must read for anyone using the framework!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I googled you and can now better appreciate how niche your research area is! I can understand your skepticism. But, I did see your location, maybe that's the drawcard? Even I wouldn't mind visiting, say, for 3-4 weeks!

Oh, how interesting! Still, I would not have detected a red flag. I am commonly called Prof (albeit untimely), but it can be common vernacular for teacher/lecturer in some countries, right? Not in my system though. And I would have also advocated for cross-disciplinary curiosity too, until....

Feeling vulnerable even asking: how can you tell this is spam and not a genuine student seeking answers?

A special thank you to The Australian Temperament Project for allowing us to share their data.

It took a village to create this paper: Christopher Greenwood, Emily Berger, Andrea Reupert, Gerald Wurf, Natalia Rajendran William Warton, Dr Meredith O'Connor, Ann Sanson, Craig Olsson & @PrimroseLetcher

The TL;DR Psychology Today version: www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/sens...

The full study: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The numbers tell the story: students with higher school belonging had about 25% lower odds of using tobacco, cannabis, or illicit substances in young adulthood".

For tobacco use, we found the protective effect of school belonging was most powerful when participants were 19–20, and while this effect decreased somewhat by their late 20s, it still made a difference.

In our new research, "students with strong school belonging were consistently less likely to use cannabis and illicit substances across all time points we measured—at 19–20, 23–24, and even 27–28 years old.

Thank you!!

Thank you for sharing!

🫠So cool!