Role of Family Background, Student Behaviors, and School-Related Beliefs in Predicting High School Dropout

The authors' purpose was to test a parsimonious model derived from social cognitive career theory (R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, & G. Hackett, Citation1994) and expectancy value theory (J. S. Eccles & A. Wigfield, Citation2002) that integrates groups of variables (demographic background, student behaviors, and school-related beliefs) with the goal of predicting high school dropout in a nationally representative sample of 15,753 high school students....