SCHOOL BELONGINGNESS DURING COVID-19: STUDY IN PRIVATE SCHOOL STUDENTS IN JAKARTA

Abstract

An important aspect of students' emotional involvement in school that will help students to be more motivated and achieve optimally is how much students are attached and involved to their school. The definition commonly used to describe student involvement with their school is school belongingness. School belongingness as a condition when students feel personally accepted, valued, involved and supported in the social environment of the school. Seeing the importance of this aspect of school belonging to the psychological aspects of students in Indonesia, especially Jakarta as focus of this initial research. This research involved four private schools in Jakarta that participated in the study (one junior high school, two regular high schools, and one vocational high schools) in Jakarta with total of 826 participants. This study measured school belonging using the Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale (PSSM). The results showed that there was no significant difference in school belongingness in terms of sex, class, major, and device used during online learning. The results of the analysis showed a significant difference in the mean on six different aspects. The presence or absence of favourite teachers and school friends also distinguishes the level of school belongingness of students. With their favourite teachers and schoolmates, students have higher school belongingness. There is a significant difference in school belongingness seen from the reasons for choosing school, students' perceptions of the implementation of online learning and activity in school organizations or activities.