Risk Factors of Scholastic Underachievement among Preparatory School Students, Their Mothers' Perception and Intervention
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 5
Abstract
Adolescents’ scholastic underachievement is a widespread social and academic problem that has a great impact not only on the individual students but also their families, schools and the community as a whole. Aims of study are to identify the risk factors of scholastic underachievement among preparatory school students and explore mothers' perception about underachievement, its’ risk factors and their adopted interventions measures to support their underachiever students. Descriptive and phenomenological research designs. By using multistage sampling technique 10 governmental preparatory schools in 5 educational directorates out of the 18 educational directorates in El-Beheira Governorate were randomly selected. From each directorate, one male and one female preparatory school were chosen randomly. The total sample size was 400 students (200 underachievers and 200 achievers). From each directorate, 8-10 mothers were selected using the convenient sampling technique to participate in FGDs (45 mothers). Five tools were used to collect data includes preparatory school students' assessment, family Socioeconomic Status Scale (SES), Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), Assessment of the school climate inventory and Focus Group Discussions Guide (FGD). There was significant association between scholastic underachievement and multiple familial risk factors as parents' age, socioeconomic status, crowding index, and marital status. Almost all of mothers emphasized that underachievement is a multidimensional problem that should be managed through collaboration between home, school and community. Conclusion: scholastic underachievement is a vast multidimensional problem with multilevel and interrelated risk factors, which operated at personal, family, school, and community level. Recommendations: firstly, the families should act as a role model for their underachiever teens regarding the value of education, and secondly, the educational sector should establish school based counseling center for underachiever students to change their negative thought patterns about learning.
Authors and Affiliations
Samiha Hamdi Sayed Ramadan, Nazek Ibrahim Abd Elghany, Reem Bassiouny Mahmoud El Lassy, Hanan Hosni El-Sherbini
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