Detección del absentismo escolarAnálisis y descripción de la Escala de Apreciación de Riesgo Social Infantil

Abstract

In recent years, the interest in studying the lifestyles and their contexts as triggers of school absenteeism has increased significantly. Thus, when the children are living in a family or a social context deteriorated, generates a way of life for that context adaptive, but not adapted for the context of the society, and of the particular school. This affects the appearance and maintenance of school absenteeism. The objective of this work consists in the construction and validation of a scale of life-styles to detect if these can be triggers for school absenteeism in students at risk of exclusion. The preliminary version of the scale was subjected to a pilot test in order to study their psychometric properties and was administered to a group of 40 families of the students of the secondary stage of the CAES Nazareth of Alicante in response to the level of absenteeism or assistance that showed the pupils. The resulting scale is Likert-type and consists of 12 items distributed in 6 dimensions that the subject should be evaluated according to the degree of occurrence. Paragraphs defining the life styles of prone to social risk from the families of students are defined by six following concepts: habits, family environment organization, communication, teaching methods, conception of life and models and learning.