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Family Environment And Severity Of Absenteeism In Youth, Rachel Marie Loftis

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The current study examined the relationship between family environment and severity of youth absenteeism in clinical and community settings. Previous researchers have adopted a categorical approach to investigating the role of family environment in problematic absenteeism by diving youth into discrete categories and these studies are almost exclusively conducted in clinical settings. The current study contributes to the literature by adopting a dimensional approach that examines the impact of family environment on problematic absenteeism across diagnostic and functional categories.

The first aim of the study was to determine the family environment characteristics most predictive of absenteeism severity. The first hypothesis …

School Climate, Absenteeism, And Psychopathology Among Truant Youth, Marisa Charlene Hendron

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

School refusal behavior has become highly problematic for schools worldwide. Researchers have focused efforts on examining many factors related to absenteeism, including child, parent, family, peer, school, and community variables. Many previous researchers examined absenteeism between groups (i.e. truants vs. nontruants, truants vs. school refusers). The present study investigated percentage of absenteeism in relation to contextual variables in a diverse sample of truants referred to programs designed to improve attendance. First, a model of school climate (Sharing of Resources, Order and Discipline, Parent Involvement, Student Interpersonal Relations, and Student-Teacher Relations) contributing to severity of absenteeism was tested via structural equation …