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https://doi.org/10.14943/b.edu.134.1

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/75120

Relationships between school enjoyment and absence behavior in the context of transition across grade levels in junior high school

英語

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2019-06-27

Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University

Bulletin of Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University

134

1-15

In Japan, school non-attendance remarkably increases in 1st and 2nd grade of junior high school. The present study was aimed to investigate the factors that influenced absence behaviors in the new school year of secondary school. To be specific, firstly we measured students’ school enjoyment before and after the school year transition, which made a two-wave longitudinal research. Then the mechanism was discussed that level and change of school enjoyment influenced absence behavior. As a result of the analysis of 484 students who transited to the 1st grade and 543 students who transited to the 2nd grade of junior high school, we figured out as following. (1) There were significant individual differences in the level and change of school enjoyment during the school year transition. (2) The data of school absence behavior was verified to fit the zero-inflated poisson distribution well. (3) Both level and change of school enjoyment were examined to affect absence behavior in new school year. The higher level school enjoyment remained, or the more school enjoyment improved, the less possible the student would conduct the absence behavior. Based on the results, support measures were discussed in order to prevent the phenomenon of school non-attendance.

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