Frequency, stability and differentiation of self-reported school fear and truancy in a community sample

Abstract

Background: Surprisingly little is known about the frequency, stability, and correlates of school fear and truancy based on self-reported data of adolescents.

Practitioner Review: School refusal: developments in conceptualisation and treatment since 2000

“…This term provides no suggestions of causality but, rather can be understood by the functions that are served by nonattendance. While attractive to many, others prefer to maintain a classificatory distinction between school refusal and truancy (Havik, Bru, & Ertesvåg, ; Steinhausen, Müller, & Winkler, ).…”

“…Steinhausen et al. () obtained self‐reports from 834 Swiss children aged between six and seventeen at two‐time points. The researchers found that, at the first‐time point (student mean age = 13 years), 104 children reported some form of school absenteeism.…”

Exploratory two-level analysis of individual- and school-level factors on truant youth emotional/psychological functioning

“…As mentioned, the psychological literature on school absenteeism generally emphasizes school refusers, not truants, suffer from mental health difficulties, since school refusers are thought to be motivated to absenteeism due to mental health issues. But research has found that truant youth also suffer from mental health problems (e.g., Hodges & Kim, 2000; Steinhausen et al, 2008), though the magnitude and nature of emotional problems among truant youths may differ from those among school refusers. Importantly, the data in this study do not indicate that the youths’ school absenteeism was directly related to their mental health problems, only that the youths were truant and possessed mental health problems.…”

“…In a second study of mental health problems and truancy, Steinhausen, Muller, and Metzke (2008) compared levels of mental health problems among school refusers (youths who indicated they were afraid of attending school), truant youths (youths who indicated that they skipped/cut classes), and control youths (those not identified as school refusers or truants). Steinhausen et al used the Youth Self Report (YSR), which is a version of the CBCL for self-reporting among older children and adolescents.…”

Perfiles de ansiedad escolar: Diferencias en Clima Social y Violencia entre Iguales

“…Existe una cantidad ingente de investigaciones que han tratado de identificar, catalogar y definir los miedos de niños y adolescentes en términos generales (Burham, 2005(Burham, , 2009Ollendick, 1983;Sandín, 1997;Scherer y Nakamura, 1968;Valiente, Sandín, Chorot y Tabar, 2003) y también, aunque en menor medida, las situaciones generadoras de ansiedad escolar (Méndez, García-Fernández y Olivares, 1996;Morris, Finkelstein y Fisher, 1976;Steinhausen, Müller y Winkler, 2008;Swartz, Reyns, Henson y Wilcox, 2011). Sin embargo, aún existen algunas lagunas en la investigación como, por ejemplo, analizar la relación de la ansiedad escolar con otras variables relevantes del contexto escolar así como también estudiar las diferencias que se producen en estas variables entre los grupos de baja y alta ansiedad escolar.…”