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Behavioural and Emotional Problems in Children and Educational Outcomes: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
1School of Commerce, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia. rasheda.khanam@usq.edu.au.
Administration and Policy in Mental Health
|November 13, 2017
Summary
Children's emotional problems negatively impact educational outcomes. This study found that increased emotional difficulties correlate with lower scores on national literacy and numeracy assessments.
Area of Science:
- Child Psychology
- Educational Psychology
- Developmental Economics
Background:
- Behavioral and emotional problems in children can affect academic performance.
- Existing research often faces challenges with unobserved factors influencing educational outcomes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the impact of children's behavioral and emotional problems on educational outcomes.
- To test the hypothesis of knowledge accumulation using a dynamic model.
- To address potential biases from unobserved factors in the analysis.
Main Methods:
- Utilized data from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children (LSAC).
- Employed a dynamic specification to model the relationship between problems and outcomes.
- Applied the system generalised method of moments (GMM) estimator for robust estimation.
Main Results:
- Mental disorders in children were found to negatively affect National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) test scores.
- Emotional problems showed the most significant negative association with academic performance.
- A one standard deviation increase in emotional problems was linked to reductions in NAPLAN scores across reading, writing, spelling, matrix reasoning, grammar, and numeracy.
Conclusions:
- Childhood emotional problems present a significant barrier to educational achievement.
- The findings underscore the importance of addressing mental health in children for academic success.
- The study provides robust evidence on the detrimental effects of emotional difficulties on standardized test performance.
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