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Hickman, Gregory P.; Sabia, Magaret F.; Heinrich, Randy; Nelson, LaCoñia; Travis, Frances; Veri, Tracy – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2017
The authors examined the predictive nature of attentional biases and initial grade point average of ninth graders dropping out of high school. Attentional biases are cognitive shifts in focus that are linked in both time and context toward stimuli perceived by an individual as threatening. Data were collected from 68 high school freshmen (45.6%…
Descriptors: Attention, Bias, High School Freshmen, Predictor Variables