Predictors of adolescent truancy: The importance of cyberbullying, peer behavior, and parenting style
Escario, JJ (通讯作者),Fac Empresa & Gest Publ, Plaza Constituc S-N, Huesca 22001, Spain.;Escario, JJ (通讯作者),Fac Business & Publ Management, Pl Constituc, Huesca 22001, Spain.;Escario, JJ (通讯作者),Univ Zaragoza, Fac Business & Publ Management, Huesca, Spain.
This study extends the truancy literature by exploring correlates of both committing truancy and the numbers of days truant among Spanish secondary school students. The study incorporates cyberbullying, peer truancy and parenting style as key predictors. Several count data regression models are estimated using a nationally repre-sentative survey of Spanish students (N = 37,476; Mage = 15.73; 50.9 % females). The results suggest that cyberbullying and parenting style play a significant role in a student's decision to commit truancy, while peer truancy plays a significant role in both the decision of whether or not to commit truancy (OR = 1.61) and the number of days truant (IRR = 1.41). These results suggest that reducing cyberbullying and promoting specific parenting styles may serve to reduce truancy, and that this direct effect or reduction could be further increased indirectly via peer or social multipliers.