TY - JOUR
T1 - Predicting secondary school dropout among South African adolescents
T2 - A survival analysis approach
AU - Weybright, Elizabeth H.
AU - Caldwell, Linda L.
AU - Xie, Hui Jimmy
AU - Wegner, Lisa
AU - Smith, Edward A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, South African Journal Of Education. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Education is one of the strongest predictors of health worldwide. In South Africa, school dropout is a crisis where by Grade 12, only 52% of the age appropriate population remain enrolled. Survival analysis was used to identify the risk of dropping out of secondary school for male and female adolescents and examine the influence of substance use and leisure experience predictors while controlling for demographic and known predictors using secondary, longitudinal data. Results indicated being male, not living with one’s mother, smoking cigarettes in the past month, and lower levels of leisure-related intrinsic motivation significantly predicted dropout. Results support comprehensive prevention programmes that target risk behaviour and leisure.
AB - Education is one of the strongest predictors of health worldwide. In South Africa, school dropout is a crisis where by Grade 12, only 52% of the age appropriate population remain enrolled. Survival analysis was used to identify the risk of dropping out of secondary school for male and female adolescents and examine the influence of substance use and leisure experience predictors while controlling for demographic and known predictors using secondary, longitudinal data. Results indicated being male, not living with one’s mother, smoking cigarettes in the past month, and lower levels of leisure-related intrinsic motivation significantly predicted dropout. Results support comprehensive prevention programmes that target risk behaviour and leisure.
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U2 - 10.15700/saje.v37n2a1353
DO - 10.15700/saje.v37n2a1353
M3 - Article
C2 - 30287979
AN - SCOPUS:85020455172
VL - 37
JO - South African Journal of Education
JF - South African Journal of Education
SN - 0256-0100
IS - 2
M1 - 1353
ER -