Experienced financial scarcity, but not perceived family wealth, predicts school dropout among tertiary vocational students¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Higher financial scarcity increases the probability of dropping out in the first year of tertiary vocational education, while lower perceived family wealth does not directly predict dropout. → Finkenauer 2023

Evidence¶

Finkenauer 2023¶

Finkenauer, C., Boer, M., Spitzer, J., Weinberg, D., Visser, K., Jonker, M. & Stevens, G. W. J. M. (2023). Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students. npj Science of Learning 8:38. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00189-4

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Logistic regression models (M1a-c) in the pre-registered study of 1,231 Dutch vocational students tested three family wealth indicators against officially reported dropout. Financial scarcity showed a significant association (B = 0.358, p = 0.015, OR = 1.430 in Table 3), and "lower levels of perceived family wealth did not" predict dropout.

"In our univariate models (M1a-c), lower levels of family affluence and higher levels of financial scarcity increased adolescents' probability of dropping out of school, but lower levels of perceived family wealth did not (Table 3)."

Discussion¶

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