Student Mobility and School Dropout

This study examined adolescent life, parent-child relationships, peer networks, academic performance, psychological well-being, and school attachment to account for the high rate of dropout mobile and non-mobile adolescents. Data were collected from approximately 8,500 respondents to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. It was determined that characteristics of adolescents’ peer networks, specifically their centrality in those networks and the performance of their friends academically, appeared to be the most important mediators of the mobility-dropout association.