Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives

Yazarlar: G. Kholasezadeh, S. M. Yassini A., Hamed Vaseghi, Zahra Poormovahed

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Truancy,Students,School.

Özet: Truancy is a serious concern that affects most school districts in the United States and its prevention has been reported as a national emergency although prevalence of truancy has been increased recently. Due to its unintended social, psychological, familial consequences, a special attention is needed. Two hundred 14 – 18 years old boy high school students of Yazd city enrolled in this comparative cross-sectional study. Sampling was done through random clustering  method among 10328 boy students of Yazd city high school and the data were collected by a questionnaire consisted of two parts: part one was related to the individual’s characteristics and part two was consisted of some factors related to truancy. The sample was studied in 2 separate groups of truants (101 cases) and non-truants (99 cases).Results: The average age of truancy was 16.81 ±0.96 in truants and 16.60±0.98 in non-truants.  This study showed that the last year’s grade average of the truants was significantly less than non-truants (P=0.002) and there was a significant correlation between the difficulty of school courses and fear of examinations (P=0.03),   disappointment of poor results (P=0.007), academic failure (P=0.001), parental failure to address their child's education (P<0.001) and truancy; however, no significant correlation was found between inappropriate behaviour of school authorities, family conflicts, recreation and truancy. The difficulty of school courses, fear of examination and disappointment of study outcome, academic failure and parental failure to address their child's education are associated with truancy of boy students.  

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