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7Young Australians interviewed about their experience said they view their detours negatively, without necessarily seeing them as failures. They attribute these detours to a lack of guidance from their parents or in school (Riele, 2004). Other research conducted in two cycles (1998 and 2000) on mental health among American young adults shows that alcohol abuse is strongly correlated with interruptions in academic and occupational trajectories. These interruptions are mostly viewed negatively. Young adults who are neither employed nor attending school believe that their lives have not progressed since they left school. They have a very negative view of this stagnation in their status (Aseltine, 2005). This study shows that in fact, youths do not necessarily "choose" a life strewn with interruptions. Rather, they experience psychosocial difficulties in their academic and occupational trajectories.
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