Assessing Reasons for School Non-Attendance

Autor/inn/en	Havik, Trude; Bru, Edvin; Ertesvåg, Sigrun K.
Titel	Assessing Reasons for School Non-Attendance
Quelle	In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 59 (2015) 3, S.316-336 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-3831
DOI	10.1080/00313831.2014.904424
Schlagwörter	Attendance; Attribution Theory; Gender Differences; Cohort Analysis; Educational Needs; Special Needs Students; Questionnaires; Secondary School Students; Health Conditions; Truancy; Student Surveys; Attitude Measures; Online Surveys; Statistical Analysis; Incidence; Foreign Countries; Dropout Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Factor Analysis; Structural Equation Models; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anwesenheit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Kohortenanalyse; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Fragebogen; Sekundarschüler; Schulabsentismus; Schulschwänzen; Schulverweigerung; Schülerbefragung; Statistische Analyse; Vorkommen; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Faktorenanalyse; Norwegen
Abstract	The aim of the present study is to assess reasons for school non-attendance including somatic symptoms, subjective health complaints, truancy, and school refusal and to investigate the relationship of these with gender, grade, and self-reported special educational needs. The study is based on a self-reported questionnaire distributed to students recruited from seven municipalities in Norway. The total sample included 5,465 students in the sixth to tenth grades. The measurement model yielded indices of good fit, and the four suggested dimensions of reasons for school non-attendance were supported. Subjective health complaints emerged as the most commonly reported reason for school non-attendance, whereas 6.2% of students reported that their non-attendance "quite often" was due to truancy- or school refusal-related reasons. There was a tendency for students who report special educational needs to report more truancy reasons and for females to report more school refusal reasons. Implications for research and practice are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01