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THE BEHAVIOUR OF PERSISTENT SCHOOL ABSENTEES
Author(s) -
REID K.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1984.tb02595.x
Subject(s) - psychology , neuroticism , rutter , developmental psychology , social psychology , personality
S ummary . The Rutter (1967) Children's Behaviour Questionnaire (Scale B) was given to 77 persistent absentees and their two control groups in the third, fourth and fifth years at a large inner‐city comprehensive school in a deprived area in South Wales over a three‐week period. The results showed that the persistent absentees depicted significantly worse behavioural traits than the pupils in the two control groups and exuded higher levels of neurotic and anti‐social conduct. Some interesting group and sex differences were found within these data. The implications of these results are discussed in the light of recent findings.