Adverse situations encountered by adolescent students who return to school following suspension.

Full Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the adverse personal, family, peer and school situations encountered by adolescent students who had returned to school after being suspended. This was a large-scale study involving a representative population of Taiwanese adolescents. A total of 8,494 adolescent students in Southern Taiwan were recruited in the study and completed the questionnaires. The relationships between their experiences of suspension from school and adverse personal, family, peer, and school situations were examined. The results indicated that 178 (2.1%) participants had been suspended from school at some time. Compared with students who had never been suspended, those who had experienced suspension were more likely to report depression, low self-esteem, insomnia, alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, low family support, low family monitoring, high family conflict, habitual alcohol consumption, illicit drug use by family members, low rank and decreased satisfaction in their peer group, having peers with substance use and deviant behaviors, low connectedness to school, and poor academic achievement. These results indicate that adolescent students who have returned to school after suspension encounter numerous adverse situations. The psychological conditions and social contexts of these individuals need to be understood in depth, and intervention programs should be developed to help them to adjust when they return to school and to prevent school dropouts in the future.

Author information

Author/s: Yen, Cheng-Fang (CF); Wang, Hui-Ting (HT);

Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. chfaye(-atsign-)cc.kmu.edu.tw

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: The Kaohsiung journal of medical sciences (Kaohsiung J Med Sci), published in China (Republic : 1949- ). (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Jun; vol 25 (issue 6) : pp 316-24

Dates: Created 2009/06/29; Completed 2009/10/09;

PMID: 19560996, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 10/9/2009, IMS Date: )

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