PMID- 31623358
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200221
LR  - 20231014
IS  - 1660-4601 (Electronic)
IS  - 1661-7827 (Print)
IS  - 1660-4601 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 19
DP  - 2019 Oct 3
TI  - Identifying Risk Profiles of School Refusal Behavior: Differences in Social 
      Anxiety and Family Functioning Among Spanish Adolescents.
LID - 10.3390/ijerph16193731 [doi]
LID - 3731
AB  - School attendance problems negatively affect students' development. This study 
      attempted to identify different school refusal behavior profiles and to examine 
      their relationship with three dimensions of social anxiety (fear of negative 
      evaluation, social avoidance and distress in new situations, and social avoidance 
      and distress that is experienced more generally in the company of peers) and the 
      perception of family functioning. Participants included 1842 Spanish adolescents 
      (53% girls) aged 15-18 years (M = 16.43; SD = 1.05). The School Refusal 
      Assessment Scale-Revised (SRAS-R), the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents 
      (SAS-A), and the Family APGAR Scale (APGAR: Adaptation, Partnership, Growth, 
      Affection, and Resolve) were administered. Latent class analysis revealed four 
      school refusal behavior profiles: non-school refusal behavior, high school 
      refusal behavior, moderately low school refusal behavior, and moderately high 
      school refusal behavior. Analyses of variance (ANOVA) indicated that adolescents' 
      with the profile of high school refusal behavior showed higher scores in all the 
      subscales of social anxiety. In contrast, the non-school refusal behavior group 
      revealed higher scores in the perception of good family functioning, whereas the 
      high school refusal behavior profile obtained the lowest scores in this scale. 
      These findings suggest that students who reject school are at a higher risk of 
      developing social anxiety problems and manifesting family conflicts. These 
      students should be prioritized in order to attend to their needs, promoting 
      self-help to overcome social anxiety and family problems with the purpose of 
      preventing school refusal behaviors.
FAU - Gonzalvez, Carolina
AU  - Gonzalvez C
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7810-9044
AD  - Department of Development Psychology and Teaching, Faculty of Education, 
      University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain. carolina.gonzalvez@ua.es.
FAU - Diaz-Herrero, Angela
AU  - Diaz-Herrero A
AD  - Department of Development Psychology and Education, Faculty of Psychology, 
      University of Murcia, 30003 Murcia, Spain. adiaz@um.es.
FAU - Sanmartin, Ricardo
AU  - Sanmartin R
AD  - Department of Development Psychology and Teaching, Faculty of Education, 
      University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain. ricardo.sanmartin@ua.es.
FAU - Vicent, Maria
AU  - Vicent M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6254-4770
AD  - Department of Development Psychology and Teaching, Faculty of Education, 
      University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain. maria.vicent@ua.es.
FAU - Perez-Sanchez, Antonio M
AU  - Perez-Sanchez AM
AD  - Department of Development Psychology and Teaching, Faculty of Education, 
      University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain. am.perez@ua.es.
FAU - Garcia-Fernandez, Jose M
AU  - Garcia-Fernandez JM
AD  - Department of Development Psychology and Teaching, Faculty of Education, 
      University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain. josemagf@ua.es.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20191003
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Int J Environ Res Public Health
JT  - International journal of environmental research and public health
JID - 101238455
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adolescent Behavior/*psychology
MH  - Anxiety/epidemiology/*psychology
MH  - Family/*psychology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Peer Group
MH  - Refusal to Participate/*psychology
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - *Schools
MH  - *Social Behavior
MH  - Spain/epidemiology
MH  - Students/*psychology
PMC - PMC6801475
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - adolescents
OT  - family functioning
OT  - latent class analysis
OT  - school refusal behavior
OT  - social anxiety
COIS- The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
EDAT- 2019/10/19 06:00
MHDA- 2020/02/23 06:00
PMCR- 2019/10/01
CRDT- 2019/10/19 06:00
PHST- 2019/09/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/09/29 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/09/30 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/10/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/10/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/02/23 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/10/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ijerph16193731 [pii]
AID - ijerph-16-03731 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ijerph16193731 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Oct 3;16(19):3731. doi: 
      10.3390/ijerph16193731.