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Student behavioral engagement as a mediator between teacher, family, and peer support and school truancy

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Virtanen, T., Lerkkanen, M.-K., Poikkeus, A.-M., & Kuorelahti, M. (2014). Student behavioral engagement as a mediator between teacher, family, and peer support and school truancy. Learning and Individual Differences, 36(December), 201–206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2014.09.001
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Learning and Individual Differences
Authors
Virtanen, Tuomo |
Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina |
Poikkeus, Anna-Maija |
Kuorelahti, Matti
Date
2014
Discipline
ErityispedagogiikkaEsi- ja alkuopetusSpecial EducationPre- and Early Childhood Education
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Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. or its licensors or contributors.

 
This study investigated the associations between student's behavioral engagement; teacher, family, and peer emotional support; and school truancy. Student-reported data of 821 Finnish junior high school students were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Teacher and family support were positively associated with student behavioral engagement, which in turn was negatively associated with truancy. Behavioral engagement mediated the associations between teacher and family emotional support and truancy. The results highlight the pivotal roles of teacher and family emotional support in fostering student behavioral engagement and preventing truancy in junior high schools. Students who are attached to their teachers and parents are likely to conform to their expectations and not to play truant from school.
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Pergamon Press
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1041-6080
Keywords
school truancy student engagement emotional support social control theory participation-identification model
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2014.09.001
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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201511133649

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