title: School Self-Concept in Adolescents With Chronic Pain.
abstract: This study investigated school self-efficacy and sense of school membership (collectively "school self-concept") as potential influences on impaired school function among adolescents with chronic pain, including comparison of adolescents with primary pain to those with disease-based pain and pain-free peers.
  
  
  
  In all, 264 adolescents (12-17 years old) with primary pain conditions, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, or no pain completed measures of functional disability, school functioning, pain characteristics, and school self-concept, the Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for School Situations (SEQ-SS), and Psychological Sense of School Membership (PSSM).
  
  
  
  Both the SEQ-SS and PSSM demonstrated reliability and some validity, with the SEQ-SS more strongly supported. As a group, adolescents with primary pain conditions reported poorer school self-concept. School self-efficacy, but not school belongingness, predicted school functioning later in the school year.
  
  
  
  School self-concept, especially as assessed with the SEQ-SS, is relevant and important to assess when addressing school functioning in youth with chronic pain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital.|Harvard Medical School.
authors.forename: Deirdre E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Logan
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital.|Harvard Medical School.
authors.forename: Laura S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital.
authors.forename: Christina N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Iversen
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School.|Division of Rheumatology, Boston Children's Hospital.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012574:Schools; D012649:Self Concept; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012933:Social Identification; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: academic functioning; chronic pain; juvenile idiopathic arthritis; pain; psychosocial functioning; school functioning