Parallel to the measure of truancy, sample members were also asked whether over the past year they had been suspended from school for any reason.
Finally, girls with early conduct problems were more prone to problems with school authorities such as school truancy, compared to girls with low rates of early conduct problems.
Five of the six factors were deviant child behaviors (such as high tobacco and alcohol use, drug selling, interpersonal callousness, and truancy) while the remaining factor was high peer delinquency.
Interpersonal callousness is often already apparent in childhood, while tobacco use and truancy often become apparent in late childhood or early adolescence.
In neither case are these extremes: very few respondents even with the highest rates of relocation have very low scores or report very frequent truancy.
Some parents did not tolerate truancy and found fault with it.
For example, there are increased cues for interactions that promote peer-group acceptance or authority conflict (such as truancy) during the adolescent years.
The authority conflict pathway applies to boys up to age 12 years, because after that age truancy becomes more common.
