"Although the determinants of teenager participation in the labour market have been studied previously (both in the United States and the United Kingdom), there remain a number of neglected questions. We address some of these in this paper, basing our analysis on data taken from the UK National Child Development Study. We first examine how teenagers divide their time between working and studyin...

In line with fear of crime research, schools should be secure places where pupils feel safe in order to function well. Various types of risk and promotive variables at school and pupil level may differently influence a pupil's feelings of safety in school, the school surroundings, and at home. The aim is to elaborate and test a theoretical two-level model on risk and promotive variables by usin...

• Motivation. Early adolescents may also experience a decline in indicators of academic motivation, such as attention in class, school attendance, and selfperception. Also seen are age-related increases in negative motivational and behavioral characteristics, such as learned helplessness in response to failure, focus on self-evaluation rather than on mastering tasks, truancy, and school dropout.

The purpose of this investigation was to assess the prevalence and associated factors four alcohol use indicators among male female school adolescents in Bolivia. In total, 7931 participants (M = 15.5 years, SD 1.6) responded a questionnaire cross-sectional nationally representative survey Bolivia 2018. proportion current 26.4%, heavy 11.1%, ever having been drunk 24.1%, trouble resulting from ...

BACKGROUND This paper presents results from the first wave of a longitudinal study examining the effects of various psychosocial variables on scholastic achievement and behaviour at school. AIMS The main aim is to investigate the nature and strength of the effects of major individual difference dimensions on important outcome variables at school level, including academic performance, truancy,...

One of the most serious disciplinary issues is student truancy. Researchers in this study want to know how truancy affects academic achievement among Junior High School pupils Ghana's Ashanti Mampong Municipality. The data was collected using descriptive and correlational research methodologies, as well a questionnaire. A multi-stage sampling procedure used determine sample size 331, which incl...