Effects of Parental Divorce or a Father's Death on High School Completion

Autor/inn/en	Sapharas, Nicole K.; Estell, David B.; Doran, Kelly A.; Waldron, Mary
Titel	Effects of Parental Divorce or a Father's Death on High School Completion
Quelle	In: Psychology in the Schools, 53 (2016) 8, S.861-874 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-3085
DOI	10.1002/pits.21947
Schlagwörter	Correlation; Parents; Death; Divorce; High School Students; Dropouts; Multiple Regression Analysis; Mothers; Prediction; Risk; Educational Attainment; Race; Ethnicity; Graduation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Eltern; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Ehescheidung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Mother; Mutter; Vorhersage; Risiko; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnizität; Abschluss; Graduierung
Abstract	Associations between parental loss and high school (HS) completion were examined in data drawn from 1,761 male and 1,689 female offspring born in wedlock to mothers participating in a nationally representative study. Multiple logistic regression models were conducted predicting HS completion by age 19 among offspring whose parents divorced or father died, compared to offspring of continuously married parents. Models were estimated without and with adjustment for correlated sociodemographic characteristics, including maternal education and age at first childbirth and offspring age at last assessment and race/ethnicity. In unadjusted models, parental divorce predicted a 41% decreased odds of HS completion for males, and paternal death predicted a 79% decreased odds of HS completion for females. In models including sociodemographic risk factors, associations between parental divorce and paternal death reduced slightly. Findings highlight the importance of examining unique risks from paternal death versus parental divorce on educational attainment in male and female offspring. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01