Truancy and Well-Being among Secondary School Pupils in England

Autor/inn/en	Attwood, Gaynor; Croll, Paul
Titel	Truancy and Well-Being among Secondary School Pupils in England
Quelle	In: Educational Studies, 41 (2015) 1-2, S.14-28 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-5698
DOI	10.1080/03055698.2014.955725
Schlagwörter	Truancy; Well Being; Questionnaires; Unemployment; Mental Health; Longitudinal Studies; Foreign Countries; Coping; Gender Differences; Intervention; Correlation; Secondary School Students; Student Attitudes; Interviews; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulabsentismus; Schulschwänzen; Schulverweigerung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Fragebogen; Arbeitslosigkeit; Psychohygiene; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Ausland; Bewältigung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Korrelation; Sekundarschüler; Schülerverhalten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	The paper considers two problematic aspects of the lives of young people: the long-standing issues of truancy from school and more recent concerns about the extent of mental well-being. It uses data from a large-scale survey, the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE). LSYPE provides a very large sample which allows for robust analysis of sub-groups within the population, data from families as well as the young people themselves and a panel design, so that characteristics of the young people at one point in time can be related to later outcomes. The results show the extent of truancy among year-10 pupils with well over one in five reporting truanting but high levels of truancy much less common. The reasons given for truancy mostly revolved around dislike of aspects of school. Truancy, even at low levels, was associated with more negative outcomes such as poor examination results and later unemployment. Data on mental well-being, based on the General Health Questionnaire, showed the extent of feelings of distress and inability to cope with everyday life with more serious levels affecting perhaps one in five of the young people. Young women were more likely to report problems of mental well-being than young men and truancy was strongly associated with poorer levels of well-being. The contrast between the way that most truants said that it was important to them to do well at school but also that disliking school was given as a reason for truancy suggests the possibility of school interventions. (As Provided).
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