Reaching the unreachables: A panel survey among unemployed young adults in Austria and recommendations on how to decrease nonresponse and attrition

Mühlböck, Monika; Steiber, Nadia; Kittel, Bernhard

doi:10.15203/ozp.2029.vol47iss2

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“…The goal of the present study was to examine the quality of parenting practices (i.e., supervision and support) during the year preceding dropout. Given that adolescents at risk of dropping out of school also tend to stop participating in follow‐ups (e.g., Mühlböck, Steiber, & Kittel, 2018), adopting a longitudinal design would not have been practical. We thus opted for a retrospective matched case‐control design and recruited a group of dropout cases and non‐dropout controls with a comparable or contrasted profile (Rothman, Greenland, & Lash, 2008).…”

Section: High School Dropout In Life Course Perspectivementioning

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Parenting practices during middle adolescence and high school dropout

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Journal of Adolescence

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Introduction: Despite inconclusive findings, educational researchers have long considered adequate parenting practices instrumental in preventing high school dropout among adolescents. The present short-term retrospective study focuses on parenting practices during middle adolescence when dropout typically occurs. Methods:The culturally diverse, high-risk sample of Canadian adolescents (N = 108; M age = 16.0 years) from low-income neighborhoods included very recent dropouts and matched still-in-school students. A global score reflecting the quality of parenting practices during the period preceding dropout (or comparable period) was derived from adolescents' answers to a well-established structured interview protocol. Transcripts of interviews were also used to identify the potentially disruptive challenges (e.g., parental incarceration) that families faced.Results: Results show a robust relationship between current parenting practices and dropout that was not moderated by challenging family circumstances or immigration history. Descriptive findings indicate that extreme and relatively rare cases of parental neglect were associated with a high dropout risk, but that most dropouts lived in families where communication and supervision, although not entirely absent, were minimal. Conclusion:Offering systematic support to parents of middle adolescents could help to prevent dropout in high-risk communities.Preventing high school dropout is a key priority in numerous countries (e.g., Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2018), and it often has been suggested that prevention efforts should involve both school and community actors, including parents (Freeman & Simonsen, 2015). Regarding this last group, educational researchers have long posited that parents play a critical role in encouraging school perseverance (e.g., Davie, 1953;Mannino, 1962;Messacar & Oroepoulos, 2013;Rumberger, 2011;Thomas, 1954). According to Coleman (1988), for instance, parents can invest intellectual and material resources to create a stable home environment with routines that support sustained efforts on the part of adolescents. Coleman acknowledges, however, that not all parents have access to the same resources, and that some of them might not be able to invest in their adolescents' perseverance, either because they themselves are confronted with a crisis or because the parent-adolescent relationship is too conflictual (see also Darling & Steinberg, 1993). Teachers also see parents of dropouts as uninvolved (Parr & Bonitz, 2015). Despite this long-term theoretical and practical interest in the matter, relatively few studies have directly examined how parents support school

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Section: High School Dropout In Life Course Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Parenting practices during middle adolescence and high school dropout

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“…uncommon (Mühlböck, Steiber, & Kittel, 2018; see also Beaver, 2013;Delfabbro, Winefield, Winefield, Malvaso, & Plueckhahn, 2017). Third, dropout and events of potential significance (e.g., witnessing a friend's departure from school) can occur between annual or biannual waves of longitudinal data collection, making it difficult to determine their temporal order of occurrence months or even years after the fact.…”

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Social contagion and high school dropout: The role of friends, romantic partners, and siblings.

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Social contagion theories suggest that adolescents in relationships with same-age high school dropouts should be at a greater risk of dropping out themselves. Yet, few studies have examined this premise, and none have considered all potentially influential same-age intimates, focusing instead on only either friends or siblings. Moreover, a key influence in adolescents’ social worlds, romantic partners, has been ignored. The goal of this study was to provide a comprehensive view of dropout contagion by considering occurrences of dropout among friends, siblings, and romantic partners. Data came from a sample of Canadian adolescents (N = 545) comprising one third of high school dropouts; a second third of carefully matched at-risk but persevering schoolmates; and a last third of average, not-at-risk students. As predicted, adolescents were at greater risk of dropping out when a member of their network had recently left school (i.e., in the past year, OR = 3.11; 95% CI [1.78, 6.27]), with independent associations of nontrivial sizes for occurrences of dropout among friends, romantic partners, and siblings (ORs between 1.97 [95% CI 1.25, 3.41] and 3.12 [95% CI 1.23, 11.0]). Moreover, adolescents seemed particularly at risk of quitting school (OR = 4.88; 95% CI [2.54, 12.5]) when their networks included more than one type of same-age intimate (e.g., a friend and a sibling) who had recently dropped out. Findings suggest that social contagion of dropout is a pervasive phenomenon in low-income schools and that prevention programs should target adolescents with same-age intimates who have recently left school.

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“…Osmond & Darlington, 2005) and even induce behavioral changes (Bach & Eckman, 2019). For example, we received highly positive feedback from respondents to a survey among young unemployed adults who thanked us for providing them with the opportunity and encouragement to think about their own situation (Mühlböck et al, 2018;Steiber et al, 2017). Hence, for our reflection nudge, we developed a short survey based on the experiences garnered in the prior study.…”

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Information, reflection, and successful job search: A labor market policy experiment

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Jobseekers, especially young people with little experience on the job market, face several challenges. They need to know which jobs are suited for them, where to find them, how to apply, and they need resilience in the face of repeated rejections. Previous research has shown that receiving information and reflecting on how to search for a job enhance self-efficacy and search motivation, thereby reducing the duration of unemployment spells. Following up on these results, we conducted an experiment in cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Social Affairs which combines an "information nudge" in the form of a short video-clip with what we call "reflection nudge" in the form of an online survey. We find that a treatment combining reflection and information reduces job search duration of young unemployed people with a low level of formal education. Considering the low costs of the intervention, efficiency is very high.

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Reaching the unreachables: A panel survey among unemployed young adults in Austria and recommendations on how to decrease nonresponse and attrition

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Parenting practices during middle adolescence and high school dropout

Parenting practices during middle adolescence and high school dropout

Social contagion and high school dropout: The role of friends, romantic partners, and siblings.

Information, reflection, and successful job search: A labor market policy experiment

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