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Nie, Qian; Yang, Chunyan; Teng, Zhaojun; Furlong, Michael J.; Pan, Yangu; Guo, Cheng; Zhang, Dajun – School Psychology, 2020
The protective role of students' perceptions of school climate against mental health problems has been supported in previous research, yet relatively little is known about the mechanism underlying school climate's influence on Chinese youths' depressive symptoms. Guided by the process--person-context-time model, this study examined the mediating…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Student Attitudes
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You, Sukkyung; O'Malley, Meagan D.; Furlong, Michael J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
A brief 15-item version of the California School Climate Scale (Brief-CSCS) is presented to fill a need for a measure that could be used for periodic monitoring of school personnel's general perception of the climate of their school campus. From a sample of 81,261 California school personnel, random subsamples of 2,400 teachers and 2,400…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Surveys, Test Construction, School Personnel
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Furlong, Michael J. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Drawing upon an ongoing school mental health survey being conducted in California, this article examines associations between high school students' mental wellness, including covitality (as measured with the Social Emotional Health Survey--Secondary), and school safety perceptions and experiences. Student self-reports reveal a strong positive…
Descriptors: School Safety, Well Being, Wellness, Mental Health
O'Malley, Meagan; Katz, Kristin; Renshaw, Tyler L.; Furlong, Michael J. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Researchers and educators are giving increasing scrutiny to systems-level constructs that contribute to safe, supportive, and effective schools, including school climate. School climate is a multifaceted construct that is commonly conceptualized as school community members' subjective experiences of the structural and contextual elements of a…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Definitions, Measurement, Correlation
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Rebelez, Jennica L.; Furlong, Michael J. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2013
The California School Climate and Safety Survey-Short Form (CSCSS-SF) was developed as a streamlined version (54 items) of the original CSCSS (102 items) for school safety teams to gather information regarding student perceptions of campus climate, safety, and experience of victimization. Using a longitudinal dataset, this study implemented…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, School Surveys, Educational Environment, School Safety
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Furlong, Michael J.; Greif, Jennifer L.; Bates, Michael P.; Whipple, Angela D.; Jimenez, Terese C.; Morrison, Richard – Psychology in the Schools, 2005
Planning is essential to creating safe schools and it is required by the Federal No Child Left Behind legislation (U.S. Department of Education, 2004) and implemented via district local education action plans. The implementation of these plans involves continuous monitoring and reevaluation of information pertinent to each campus. As such, this…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Safety, Psychometrics, Factor Structure
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Rosenblatt, Jennifer A.; Furlong, Michael J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1997
Responses of 109 students who failed reliability or validity checks on a school climate and violence questionnaire were compared with those of a randomly matched group who answered consistently and accurately. Results indicated significant differences in terms of school violence victimization and perceived danger at school. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Furlong, Michael J.; Morrison, Richard L. – 1994
More than one third of Americans think that reducing school violence is the top challenge facing public schools. The challenge posed by National Education Goal 7 is that, by the year 2000, schools will be free of violence. Despite increased concern about school violence and pursuit of this lofty national goal, this paper presents the argument that…
Descriptors: Campuses, Crime, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Furlong, Michael J.; Morrison, Gale M.; Cornell, Dewey G.; Skiba, Russell – Journal of School Violence, 2004
School violence became a topic of broad national concern in the United States in reaction to a series of tragic school shootings during the 1990s. Efforts to understand and prevent school shootings have stimulated the rapid development of a broader interest in school safety with an emerging multidisciplinary research agenda. The maturation and…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Violence, School Safety, Research Methodology