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Features of children taken to juvenile court for failure to attend school

Berg, Ian, Butler, Alan, Hullin, Roy, Smith, Rebecca, Tyrer, Stephen·1978·Psychological Medicine
DOI 10.1017/s0033291700016123
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The social reports on 84 children taken to court for failure to attend school were studied. Independent raters were able to assess reliably the presence and absence of a variety of variables concerned with the individual's behaviour, school, family, and involvement with social work agencies. In 68 instances teacher's questionnaires measuring psychiatric disturbance had been completed. There was no evidence that truancy in these circumstances is a homogenous condition. At least 3 independent sets of features appear to be involved in most cases. One involves antisocial and educational problems ('clinical truancy'), a second is concerned with adverse social factors and parental complicity ('school withdrawal'), and a third set includes a tendency to social isolation ('school refusal'). There was no evidence that individuals tend to exhibit one of these features to the exclusion of the others.

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  • Berg et al. (1978) factor analytic study of youth with school attendance problems yielded a factor labeled school withdrawal because of substantial loadings of variables related to parental compliance and adverse social factors.

    “A factor that emerged from Berg, Butler, Hullin, Smith, and Tyrer's (1978) factor analytic study of youth with SAPs was labeled SW because of the substantial loadings of variables related to parental compliance and adverse social factors.”

    From Differentiation between school attendance problems: why and how? (2019) · cites this paper as Berg et al. (1978)

  • Berg et al. (1978) principal component analysis found four categories: a school refusal-related factor, a school withdrawal factor, a truancy factor, and conduct disturbances.

    “Four categories were found: (1) a SR-related factor labeled”

    From Differentiation between school attendance problems: why and how? (2019) · cites this paper as Berg et al. (1978)

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Authors
Berg, I., Butler, A., Hullin, R., Smith, R., & Tyrer, S.
Affiliations
University of Leeds (GB)
Corresponding author
Berg, Ian
ORCID
Berg, Ian
Venue
Psychological Medicine
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1978-08
Volume
8
Issue
3
Pages
447-453
ISSN
  • 0033-2917 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-8978
DOI
10.1017/s0033291700016123
OpenAlex
W2055925815
Cited by
17
References
15
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
4.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 11300 d)
Locations
  • Psychological Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
Keywords
school refusal, truancy, juvenile courts, antisocial behavior, psychiatric disturbances, social isolation, school withdrawal, family factors, teacher survey
MeSH terms
Absenteeism, Achievement, Adolescent, Age Factors, Attitude, Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Child Rearing, Family Characteristics, Female, Humans, Jurisprudence, Male, Parents, Psychosocial Deprivation, Sex Factors, Social Isolation, Students

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