Students' School Engagement and Their Truant Behavior: Do Relationships with Classmates and Teachers Matter?

Autor/inn/en	Teuscher, Selina; Makarova, Elena
Titel	Students' School Engagement and Their Truant Behavior: Do Relationships with Classmates and Teachers Matter?
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Learning, 7 (2018) 6, S.124-137 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1927-5250
Schlagwörter	Dropouts; At Risk Students; Learner Engagement; Student School Relationship; Student Characteristics; Age Differences; Truancy; Peer Relationship; Teacher Student Relationship; Foreign Countries; Grade 7; Grade 9; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Schulabsentismus; Schulschwänzen; Schulverweigerung; Peer-Beziehungen; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Ausland; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Schweiz
Abstract	Research on school dropout suggests that the decision to drop out of school is not a sudden or immediate one, but rather the result of a long-term process of withdrawal from school. While school engagement and truancy are among the most prominent constructs to be associated as precursors of school dropout, the relationship between these two constructs needs further analysis. Our study establishes more comprehensive understanding of school engagement and truancy by focusing on students' individual characteristics and their relationships in school, particularly the student-teacher relationship and relationships with peers. It demonstrates that among the individual characteristics the migration background is crucial for school engagement, while the student age is important for truancy. Furthermore, peer-relationships are positively related to students' school engagement, but not to their truancy. Furthermore, a good student-teacher relationship not only has positive impacts on students' school engagement, but is also negatively associated with truancy, while school engagement mediates this path. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01