title: [Individual and Contextual Reasons for Drop-outs in Vocational Retraining].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The study focusses on the explanation of the individual, process-driven, and institutional factors and their interplay, and on the subjective accounts for the high drop-out rates in vocational retraining which are reported by the German statutory pension insurance scheme.
  
  
  METHODS
  454 participants of 2-year lasting vocational retraining schemes in 3 vocational promotion centers and 3 education providers took part in the questionnaire survey. Furthermore, experts, dropouts and participants were interviewed and group discussions with experts and participants were conducted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Drop-out is not a definite term. Instead, it consists of different dimensions. 3 personal factors for predicting a drop-out could be identified: suffering from depression, negative health assessment and lack of social support. Generally speaking, drop-out of vocational retraining is a complex and mainly situational process which can hardly be predicted by personal factors, job-biographies or foregoing unemployment.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Rehabilitationssoziologie, Institut für Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Meschnig
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Rehabilitationssoziologie, Institut für Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bartel
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Rehabilitationssoziologie, Institut für Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: von Kardorff
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D010352:Patient Dropouts / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015995:Prevalence; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012944:Social Support