Hierarchical multiple regression is used to examine whether student school engagement predicts grade point average (GPA) and fear-based truancy among 315 sexual minority youth aged 13 to 24 years. Results indicate that student school engagement is a significant predictor of GPA, and this relationship is strongest in the presence of a gay–straight alliance. Having an adult ally at school is asso...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the relative influence of genetic and environmental factors on variation in truancy during high school. We examined the significance of genetic and shared and nonshared environmental influences. In addition, we tested for the presence of environmental factors specifically shared by twins, but not by their siblings. METHODS A threshold model was...

This study examined the impact of cognitive restructuring and token economy techniques on reduction truancy among secondary school students in Lagos State, Nigeria. The adopted a pre-test, post-test, control group design with multistage sampling technique as method. Judgmental was used to select two from six Education Districts simple random schools; three schools each 170 truants out 216 rando...

Objective: To examine the association between anxious school refusal and truancy and psychiatric disorders in a community sample of children and adolescents using a descriptive rather than etiological definition of school refusal. Method: Data from eight annual waves of structured psychiatric interviews with 9to 16-year-olds and their parents from the Great Smoky Mountains Study were analyzed. ...

The 1959 Inter-Clinic Conference (which is restricted to Child Guidance Clinic personnel) had as its topic the problems of Truancy and School Phobia. In addition to its considerable professional value to the participants, this Conference revealed a number of other important aspects of the problem. It showed that this topic had considerable "news value" to the lay public : it emphasised how clos...