![]() Youth missed an average of 38.93% of school days. The overall sample was recruited from two truancy settings and one clinical setting, and was composed of 174 elementary, middle, and high school youth aged 5-17 years and their parents or guardians in the Clark County School District. It was hypothesized that higher levels of internalizing and externalizing youth psychopathology would moderate this relationship. The third aim of the study was to determine the influence of psychopathology on the relationship between family environment characteristics and severity of absenteeism. It was hypothesized that youth who refuse school in order to avoid stimuli that provoke negative affectivity and youth who refuse school to seek tangible reinforcement outside of school would moderate this relationship. The second aim of the study was to determine the influence of function of school refusal behavior on the relationship between family environment characteristics and severity of absenteeism. The first hypothesis was that the family environment characteristics cohesion, independence, intellectual-cultural orientation, and active recreational orientation would predict severity of absenteeism. The first aim of the study was to determine the family environment characteristics most predictive of absenteeism severity. The current study contributes to the literature by adopting a dimensional approach that examines the impact of family environment on problematic absenteeism across diagnostic and functional categories. Previous researchers have adopted a categorical approach to investigating the role of family environment in problematic absenteeism by diving youth into discrete categories and these studies are almost exclusively conducted in clinical settings. The current study examined the relationship between family environment and severity of youth absenteeism in clinical and community settings. ![]()
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