How to Predict Who Will Drop Out of High School (VIDEO)

Lancaster University

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Teenagers who do not access healthcare when needed are at greater risk of dropping out of high school. Dropouts are more likely to have combinations of the following traits:

  • low conscientiousness
  • neuroticism
  • introversion

The study in the Journal of Economic Psychology examined data from the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescents to Adult Health, a nationally representative sample of 90,000 students in grades 7 to 12 at 132 schools.

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