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Veenstra, Rene; Lindenberg, Siegwart; Tinga, Frank; Ormel, Johan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
Some pupils already show unexcused, illegal, surreptitious absences in elementary education or the first years of secondary education. Are weak social bonds (see also Hirschi, 1969) and a lack of self-control (Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990) indicative of truancy at an early age? Of the children in our sample, 5% were persistent truants in late…
Descriptors: Economic Status, Truancy, Delinquency, Secondary Education
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Maatta, Sami; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Stattin, Hakan – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2007
This study set out to identify the kinds of achievement orientations that adolescents show, and to examine the kinds of antecedents and consequences the use of a particular orientation has. The participants were 734 Swedish adolescents (335 boys and 399 girls) who filled in questionnaires measuring their achievement beliefs and behaviors,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Swedish, Questionnaires, Multivariate Analysis