The purpose of this study was to examine how parental involvement influences their adolescents’school truancy.Structural Equation Modeling(SEM)was utilized to explore the relationships among four dimensions of parent...The purpose of this study was to examine how parental involvement influences their adolescents’school truancy.Structural Equation Modeling(SEM)was utilized to explore the relationships among four dimensions of parental involvement,individual and family characteristics,and school truancy.The findings confirm the initial hypotheses that parental involvement has positive effects on adolescent truancy.The effects of parental involvement on school truancy,however,differed according to the dimensions of that involvement and adolescents’background characteristics.展开更多
文摘The purpose of this study was to examine how parental involvement influences their adolescents’school truancy.Structural Equation Modeling(SEM)was utilized to explore the relationships among four dimensions of parental involvement,individual and family characteristics,and school truancy.The findings confirm the initial hypotheses that parental involvement has positive effects on adolescent truancy.The effects of parental involvement on school truancy,however,differed according to the dimensions of that involvement and adolescents’background characteristics.