“…Higher education dropout became the focus of research in the 1960s. In order to understand the dropout process, theoretical frameworks and models have been developed through the incorporation of new concepts to the previous models, according to the psychological, economic or sociological tendency of the author's approach (De Castro and Teixeira, 2014;Bocsi et al, 2019;Burker, 2019). Some models have been more concerned with the high school level (Jordan et al, 1994;Rumberger, 2005;Rumberger and Lim, 2008;Rotermund and Rumberger, 2011;Fall and Roberts, 2012;De Witte et al, 2013; to mention but a few), while other models have been more concerned with higher education (Spady, 1970(Spady, , 1971Tinto, 1975Tinto, , 1993Tinto, , 1997Bean, 1980;Pascarella, 1980;Bean and Metzner, 1985;Cabrera et al, 1992;MacKinnon-Slaney, 1994;Braxton et al, 2004; to mention some).…”