Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – École de psychoéducation – Travaux et publications by Author "Dion, Éric"
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Adaptation and validation of the life events and difficulties schedule for use with high school dropouts
Dupéré, Véronique; Dion, Éric; Harkness, Kate; McCabe, Julie; Thouin, Éliane; Parent, Sophie (Wiley, 2016-11-16)The Life Events and Difficulties Schedule (LEDS) is considered the standard for measuring psychosocial stressor exposure, but it has not been used with academically at-risk adolescents, including high school dropouts. The goal of this study was to (1) ... -
Gender differences in adolescents’ exposure to stressful life events and differential links to impaired school functioning
Lavoie, Laurence; Dupéré, Véronique; Dion, Éric; Crosnoe, Robert; Lacourse, Éric; Archambault, Isabelle (Springer, 2019-01-19)Gender differences in exposure and reactivity to specific stressful life events (SLE) contribute to explaining adolescent boys’ and girls’ differential susceptibility to common adjustment difficulties like depression and behavioral problems. However, ... -
High school dropout in proximal context : the triggering role of stressful life events
Dupéré, Véronique; Dion, Éric; Leventhal, Tama; Archambault, Isabelle; Crosnoe, Robert; Janosz, Michel (Wiley, 2017-03-28)Adolescents who drop out of high school experience enduring negative consequences across many domains. Yet, the circumstances triggering their departure are poorly understood. This study examined the precipitating role of recent psychosocial stressors ... -
Revisiting the link between depression symptoms and high school dropout : timing of exposure matters
Dupéré, Véronique; Dion, Éric; Nault-Brière, Frédéric; Archambault, Isabelle; Leventhal, Tama; Lesage, Alain (Elsevier, 2017-11-28)Purpose Recent reviews concluded that past depression symptoms are not independently associated with high school dropout, a conclusion that could induce schools with high dropout rates and limited resources to consider depression screening, prevention, ... -
Social contagion and high school dropout : the role of friends, romantic partners, and siblings
Dupéré, Véronique; Dion, Éric; Cantin, Stéphane; Archambault, Isabelle; Lacourse, Éric (American Psychological Association, 2020-06-18)Social contagion theories suggest that adolescents in relationships with same-age high school dropouts should be at a greater risk of dropping out themselves. Yet, few studies have examined this premise, and none have considered all potentially influential ... -
Stressors and turning points in high school and dropout : a stress process, life course framework
Dupéré, Véronique; Leventhal, Tama; Dion, Éric; Crosnoe, Robert; Archambault, Isabelle; Janosz, Michel (2015-12)High school dropout is commonly seen as the result of a long-term process of failure and disengagement. As useful as it is, this view has obscured the heterogeneity of pathways leading to dropout. Research suggests, for instance, that some students ... -
Why do extracurricular activities prevent dropout more effectively in some high schools than in others? : a mixed-method examination of organizational dynamics
McCabe, Julie; Dupéré, Véronique; Dion, Éric; Thouin, Éliane; Archambault, Isabelle; Dufour, Sarah; Denault, Anne-Sophie; Leventhal, Tama; Crosnoe, Robert (Taylor and Francis, 2018-07-24)This study describes policies and practices implemented in 12 high schools (Quebec, Canada) that more or less effectively leveraged extracurricular activities (ECA) to prevent dropout among vulnerable students. Following an explanatory sequential mixed ...