Trust in teachers neither predicts dropout nor buffers the effect of civic attitudes on dropout¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Trust in teachers was not associated with dropout and did not moderate the relations of institutional trust and system justification with 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

q3 · i? · associational · r3

Model 3 of the vocational-student study added trust in teachers as main effect and moderator of both civic-attitude indicators; "their estimates were non-significant" and model fit did not improve. Trust in teachers did correlate negatively with dropout in bivariate analyses.

"Adding trust in teachers as main effect and moderator of the effects of both indicators of civic attitudes on dropout did not improve model fit and their estimates were non-significant (M3; see Supplementary Tables 1 and 2)."

Discussion¶

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• Experienced financial scarcity, but not perceived family wealth, predicts school dropout among tertiary vocational students — related
• Perceived family wealth shows a small indirect negative effect on dropout via institutional trust, with no total effect — related
• System justification does not mediate the family wealth–dropout association once institutional trust is accounted for — related
• Financial scarcity is indirectly associated with dropout through lower institutional trust — related
• The indirect effects of family wealth on dropout via institutional trust are robust to controlling for mental health problems — related