Participants
We conducted the study at a large, suburban high school in the southwestern United States. We focused on ninth graders because they were just transitioning to high school and might particularly benefit from connecting with an adult in a school where they did not know any authority figures. The students in our final sample (N 315) were 60% female, 51% White, 19% Latino, 11% Asian, 6% Black, and 10% reporting multiple categories or “other.” These