School Refusal Behaviors: The Roles of Adolescent and Parental Factors.

ABSTRACT: School refusal behaviors in adolescents have deleterious immediate and long-term consequences and are associated with mental ill-health such as anxiety and depression. Understanding factors that place youth at higher risk of school refusal behavior may assist in developing effective management approaches. We investigated parental and adolescent factors that may be associated with school refusal behaviors by specifically focusing on the role of parental and adolescent emotion dysregulation, their anxiety and depression, and parental rearing style. First, we hypothesized that adolescents with school refusal behaviors, as well as their parents, will report higher levels of emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and depression compared to their counterparts without school refusal behaviors. Furthermo

SUBMITTER: Chen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11497732 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature