Predictors of adolescent truancy: The importance of cyberbullying, peer behavior, and parenting style

Escario, José-Julián (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Giménez-Nadal, J. Ignacio (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Wilkinson, Anna V.

Resumen: This study extends the truancy literature by exploring correlates of both committing truancy and the numbers of days truant among Spanish secondary school students. The study incorporates cyberbullying, peer truancy and parenting style as key predictors. Several count data regression models are estimated using a nationally representative survey of Spanish students (N = 37,476; Mage = 15.73; 50.9 % females). The results suggest that cyberbullying and parenting style play a significant role in a student’s decision to commit truancy, while peer truancy plays a significant role in both the decision of whether or not to commit truancy (OR = 1.61) and the number of days truant (IRR = 1.41). These results suggest that reducing cyberbullying and promoting specific parenting styles may serve to reduce truancy, and that this direct effect or reduction could be further increased indirectly via peer or social multipliers.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106692

Año: 2022

Publicado en: Children and Youth Services Review 143 (2022), 106692 [8 pp.]
ISSN: 0190-7409

Factor impacto JCR: 3.3 (2022)

Categ. JCR: SOCIAL WORK rank: 4 / 44 = 0.091 (2022) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: FAMILY STUDIES rank: 10 / 46 = 0.217 (2022) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 5.0 - Psychology (Q1) - Social Sciences (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.974 - Education (Q1) - Sociology and Political Science (Q1) - Social Work (Q1) - Developmental and Educational Psychology (Q2)

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Fund. Análisis Económico (Dpto. Análisis Económico)