Profiling Vulnerability in Youth and Predicting Educational Attainment in Young Adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Educational attainment is associated with higher rates of employment, income, and standard of living; yet leaving secondary school before completion of the final year remains common, particularly for youth experiencing disadvantage. This study aimed to identify key indicators of vulnerability, derived from a proposed framework of child disadvantage, that predicted early school leaving in a state-representative sample of Australian youth.

Methods

Data comprised 2884 participants (51.7% female; 48.3% male) across three age cohorts from the Australian arm of the longitudinal cohort study, the International Youth Development Study (IYDS). The relationship between level of vulnerability in adolescence (11-15 years old in Wave 1; 2002) and subsequent early school leav

SUBMITTER: Renner HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12780652 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature