Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Behav Modif. 2024 Nov;48(5-6):561-580. doi: 10.1177/01454455241276414. Epub 2024 Aug 26.
School refusal behaviors in adolescents have deleterious immediate and long-term consequences and are associated with mental ill-health such as anxiety and depression. Understanding factors that place youth at higher risk of school refusal behavior may assist in developing effective management approaches. We investigated parental and adolescent factors that may be associated with school refusal behaviors by specifically focusing on the role of parental and adolescent emotion dysregulation, their anxiety and depression, and parental rearing style. First, we hypothesized that adolescents with school refusal behaviors, as well as their parents, will report higher levels of emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and depression compared to their counterparts without school refusal behaviors. Furthermore, we hypothesized that multivariate models testing the role of parental and child factors concurrently will show that parental (emotion dysregulation, anxiety and depression, and rearing styles) and adolescent (emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and depression) factors are associated with school refusal behaviors. One hundred and six adolescents aged 12 to 18 years and their parents completed an online questionnaire measuring both parental and adolescent emotion dysregulation, anxiety, depression, parental rearing styles, and adolescents' school refusal behaviors. Adolescents with school refusal behaviors reported greater anxiety and depression, with their parents showing greater emotion dysregulation. Multivariate analyses showed that parental emotion dysregulation and adolescent age were associated with school refusal behaviors independently. Future management for school refusal behaviors should consider age-tailored approaches by incorporating training for parental emotion regulation skills.
青少年的逃学行为会产生有害的短期和长期后果，并与焦虑和抑郁等精神健康问题相关。了解使青少年更容易出现逃学行为的因素可能有助于制定有效的管理方法。我们通过专门关注父母和青少年情绪调节、他们的焦虑和抑郁以及父母养育方式，研究了可能与逃学行为相关的父母和青少年因素。首先，我们假设有逃学行为的青少年及其父母与没有逃学行为的青少年相比，会报告更高水平的情绪调节障碍、焦虑和抑郁。此外，我们假设同时测试父母和儿童因素的多元模型将表明，父母（情绪调节障碍、焦虑和抑郁以及养育方式）和青少年（情绪调节障碍、焦虑和抑郁）因素与逃学行为相关。106 名 12 至 18 岁的青少年及其父母完成了在线问卷调查，该问卷测量了父母和青少年的情绪调节障碍、焦虑、抑郁、父母养育方式以及青少年的逃学行为。有逃学行为的青少年报告了更多的焦虑和抑郁，而他们的父母则表现出更多的情绪调节障碍。多元分析表明，父母的情绪调节障碍和青少年的年龄与逃学行为独立相关。未来对逃学行为的管理应考虑年龄量身定制的方法，包括对父母情绪调节技能的培训。
