Authors
Siyuan Luo, Hui Qu
Published in
Frontiers in psychology. Volume 17. Pages 1950905. Epub Oct 16, 2026.
Abstract
Universities are cultural settings in which institutional arrangements and interpersonal recognition jointly condition participation and belonging.
This open-data secondary analysis examined how perceived supportive campus environment and relationship quality combined in relation to university belonging and sociocultural engagement among health-professions students at a culturally diverse university in the United Arab Emirates. The released dataset contained 683 records; 661 complete cases entered both polynomial models. Predictors were transformed to proportion-of-maximum-possible scores. Inference combined 2,000 bootstrap resamples, HC3 heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors, duplicate-record checks, and Cook's D influence sensitivity.
The models explained 47.3% of belonging and 25.6% of sociocultural engagement. The joint-resource slope was positive for belonging [a1 = 3.159, 95% bootstrap CI (2.596, 3.602)] and sociocultural engagement [a1 = 1.721, CI (1.233, 2.133)]. Curvature, directional difference, and mismatch curvature were not consistently supported. Removing two exact duplicate records or 41 observations above Cook's D>4/n retained the positive joint-resource pattern.
Thus, stronger institutional support and relationships were jointly associated with both campus belonging and multicultural participation, without evidence for a unique matching effect. The cross-sectional measures do not directly observe identity co-construction, so the contribution is a bounded quantitative account of conditions associated with culturally situated participation and belonging.
PMID:
42964132
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 31 Oct 2026.
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