Stability of social support during school transitions : Associations with truancy and not completing upper secondary education in normative time

Abstrakti
Not completing upper secondary education is often presignaled by truancy from school. Student-perceived social support from family, peers, and teachers can prevent truancy and the risk of not completing education. However, prior studies have not focused on the stability of social support across school transitions. This longitudinal study of 1901 Finnish students examined the extent to which social support was stable or specific to primary, lower secondary, and upper secondary schools. Moreover, we examined whether support was associated with not completing upper secondary education in normative time and whether truancy mediated the relationship between support and not completing education. The analyses showed that most variance in social support was context-specific; family and peer support was related to truancy and not completing education; and truancy acted as the mediator. The findings underscored the importance of stable social support over school transitions in reducing the likelihood of truancy and not completing education.
Päätekijät
Aineistotyyppi
Artikkelit Tutkimusartikkeli
Julkaistu
2022
Sarja
Aiheet
Julkaisu tutkimustietojärjestelmässä
Julkaisija
Elsevier
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202208254359Käytä tätä linkitykseen
Vertaisarvioinnin tila
Vertaisarvioitu
ISSN
0959-4752
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101663
Kieli
englanti
Julkaisussa
Learning and Instruction
Viite
  • Virtanen, T., Vasalampi, K., Lerkkanen, M.-K., Pelkonen, J., & Poikkeus, A.-M. (2022). Stability of social support during school transitions : Associations with truancy and not completing upper secondary education in normative time. Learning and Instruction, 82, Article 101663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101663
Lisenssi
CC BY 4.0Open Access
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