Association among school refusal behavior, self-esteem, parental school involvement and aggression in punctual and truant school-going adolescents: a multilevel analysis
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare
ISSN: 2056-4902
Article publication date: 1 December 2020
Issue publication date: 1 December 2020
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine the prevalence and association among school refusal behavior, self-esteem, parental school involvement and aggression in punctual and truant school-going adolescents.
Design/methodology/approach
A purposive sampling technique and cross-sectional design were used in the current study. Participants comprised three heterogeneous sub-groups: school truant students, park truant students and punctual students.
Findings
This study’s findings indicated that father and mother’s school involvement was related to more elevated level of self-esteem for school truant students. Results also indicated that male truant students had more significant probability to school refusal behavior and physical aggression as compared to female truant students. Moreover, results revealed that physical aggression fully mediated among mother’s school involvement, academic self and school refusal behavior in punctual students and school truant students.
Originality/value
There is more need to develop indigenous school-based preventions and interventions aimed at decreasing school truancy in Pakistani context by tackling the predisposing vulnerable factors and supporting and encouraging the protective family and internal factors.
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Acknowledgements
Special thanks to my supervisor for guiding me throughout my thesis. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Muhammad Aqeel, PhD scholar, Department of Applied Psychology, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan. Email: Aqeel.1924@gmail.com.Competing interests: The authors are well informed and declare no competing interests.Funding: National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad has approved this research study. This article is extracted from a PhD thesis. We have not received any funding to execute this research study, the rigorous procedure of collecting data and other associated processes to conduct this study.
Citation
Aqeel, M. and Rehna, T. (2020), "Association among school refusal behavior, self-esteem, parental school involvement and aggression in punctual and truant school-going adolescents: a multilevel analysis", International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Vol. 13 No. 5, pp. 385-404. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHRH-06-2020-0041
Publisher
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