Voorbeelden van truancy

• These difficulties include poor academic motivation and school failure, depressed mood, school truancy, and delinquency.

• Delinquency was operationalized in terms of the total frequency of various deviant behaviors ranging from truancy at school to violence intending serious injury.

• This construct was based on youth, caretaker, and teacher reports of the youth's truancy.

• Typical disruptive behaviors are serious and persistent disobedience, frequent lying, aggressive behaviors, minor forms of theft, truancy during elementary school, and early substance use.

• In addition, the following risk factors contributed: high tobacco use, high alcohol use, high drug selling, high interpersonal callousness, and high truancy.

• Examples of status offenses include truancy, repeated running away from home, and repeated use of intoxicating beverages.

• This failure often indicates either chronic truancy or delinquent behavior on the part of the adolescent.

• The authority conflict pathway applies to boys up to age 12 years, because after that age truancy becomes more common.