The association between network dropout and adolescents' own dropout does not significantly differ by gender or by regular versus special education sector¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Interaction tests for gender and for education sector on the Table 3 models yielded no significant interactions. → Dupéré 2021

Evidence¶

Dupéré 2021¶

Dupéré, V., Dion, E., Cantin, S., Archambault, I., & Lacourse, E. (2021). Social contagion and high school dropout: The role of friends, romantic partners, and siblings. Journal of Educational Psychology, 113, 572-584. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000484

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Exploratory moderation analyses reran the four regression models with interaction terms between the moderator (gender or regular/special education sector) and network dropout characteristics among cases and matched controls (n = 366). The article reports "No significant interactions emerged (full results available upon request)".

"Similar interaction terms were introduced in Model 2 (e.g., male X occurrence of dropout among friends) and in Model 3. No significant interactions emerged (full results available upon request)"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• Dropout among friends, romantic partners, and siblings each shows an independent association with an adolescent's own dropout — related
• Risk of dropout is especially high when an adolescent's network includes more than one type of same-age intimate who recently dropped out — related
• Adolescents are at greater risk of dropping out when at least one same-age intimate (friend, romantic partner, or sibling) has recently dropped out of school — related
• The main dropout-contagion findings remained essentially unchanged across five robustness checks including unmatched samples, IPTW, and conditional regression — related