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Lavanya. G and Lavanya. T
Department of Psychology, University of Madras
Education for new millennium needs to enhance an individuals’ ability to assimilate,
evaluate and apply the information with effective classroom management. The present
study intends to investigate the relationship between factors influencing student
engagement to understand whether internal and external assets and individual factors
have an impact on student’s academic outcome inside and beyond classroom. The
current study used an Ex-post facto research design. For the purpose of this study, a
sample of 131 school student’s data was collected from Matriculation schools in Chennai
city. The Social and Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S) by Furlong et al
(2014), The Resilience Scale (for children and adolescents) by Sandra Prince Embusy
(2007) and The Behavioral-Emotional-Cognitive School Engagement Scale (BEC-SES)
Li & Lerner (2013) were the tools used to assess the variables in the study . The results
were computed statistically using Pearson product moment correlation and regression.
The results indicated that there existed a significant relationship among the variables
used in the present study. Dimensions of covitality namely belief in self, belief in others,
engaged living and in resilience, sense of mastery and emotional reactivity were found
to be the predictors of student engagement
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