(n.) The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Youth born in 1962 (N = 124) who were placed in the facility were compared for number of truancies, background, and personality variables.
(2) It was found that truancy is associated with lower status occupations, less stable career patterns and more unemployment.
(3) When individual behaviors were analyzed, school-aged mothers were more likely than either young adult mothers or nonmothers to have reported school suspension, truancy, runaway, smoking marijuana, and fighting.
(4) Schooling in Nauru is compulsory until the age of 15 but truancy rates are as high as 60% and the standard of education and the facilities themselves is low .
(5) Although four Roundhay staff in high-visibility jackets used a loudhailer to deter truancy, dozens of their pupils joined the protesters for a two-mile march to join the main rally outside Leeds art gallery.
(6) Now pools face closure, at the same time as communities are becoming targets of a $28m anti-truancy intervention .
(7) To make useless attempts to stop adult truancy there is only one effective way: The prevention by mental hygiene of parent's psychological and ethic education which govern parental behavior to give early their offspring's warmth which is in them.
(8) They had more social disadvantages, such as a history of parental death and unemployment; they were more likely to be housewives with children; they had fewer qualifications, held jobs for shorter periods of time and had a history of truancy from school.
(9) Peer drug use, suspension at school, law infringements, truancy, conflict with parents, alcohol use and cigarette smoking were the relative risk factors investigated among 953 adolescents.
(10) Cluster analysis of information collected in a standard way indicated that there was a group of children with the features of 'school refusal' who often had generalized neurotic disorders as well and who were mostly girls, another group with the features of 'truancy' all of whom had conduct disorders who were mainly boys, and a third cluster of children who were usually 'truants' but less often psychiatrically disturbed.
(11) truancy, having run away from home, and contact with police or juvenile authorities, were associated with high odds ratios for intravenous drug abuse and for cannabis abuse.
(12) About 50% had a history of difficulties such as truancy, suspension, or expulsion.
(13) In-school surveillance, she says, is sold to parents and pupils as a panacea for bullying, vandalism, truancy and more, but its implications for privacy are too often ignored.
(14) Alcholism predictors included:becoming intoxicated at an early age; dropping out of school; truancy and expulsion from school; and having a father with a history of alcoholism or arrests.
(15) Out of the ten cases sampled for the study, nine were of school phobia and one of conduct disorder (truancy).
(16) Further, for females who eloped and were returned, the probability of a subsequent truancy was above 80%.
(17) Consequently, they are all socially promoted and are facing the sting of failure which leads to truancy and conflict with school authorities.
(18) There was no evidence that truancy in these circumstances is a homogenous condition.
(19) Possible disturbance in sex-role identification, child develops avoidance systems and rejects parents, homosexuality, emotional maladjustment, shyness, resentfulness, dependency, harder to train, not "manly enough", apprehension, immaturity, compensatory masculinity, anti-social behaviour such as truancy, damaging or destroying private or public property, having premarital and extra matital sex relations and theft of property.
(20) However, its work focuses on cutting truancy, antisocial behaviour and ending worklessness.