Author, as appears in the article.: Martín-Arbós, S; Dueñas, JM; Morales-Vives, F; Castarlenas, E
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Castarlenas Solé, Elena Teresa / Dueñas Rada, Jorge Manuel / Morales Vives, Fàbia
Keywords: Self-regulation School Motivation Goals Gender Factor structure Classroom Behaviors Attitudes Achievement Academic help-seeking Academic help -seeking Academic achievement
Abstract: Although academic help-seeking is an important variable in the academic context, as it is related to academic achievement, college adjustment and teacher support, among other variables, no instruments evaluate it in the Spanish adult population. The main goal of the current study was to develop an adaptation of the Academic Help-Seeking Scale for the Spanish adult population with suitable psychometric properties. The sample consisted of 536 adults with an average age of 24.98 (SD = 8.55). The exploratory factor analysis in the first half of the sample suggested that only one factor was underlying the data, and the confirmatory factor analysis in the second half showed that the factor structure replicated in a different sample. The results suggest that this adaptation has appropriate psychometric properties, and adequate reliability and convergent validity. We also found the expected relationships with gender and academic achievement. Therefore, this instrument may be useful for researchers and education professionals who need to assess this behaviour in adults so that they can help them improve their academic performance. The study also contributes to a better understanding of academic help-seeking as an adaptative learning strategy and the variables it is related to.
Thematic Areas: Multidisciplinary sciences Multidisciplinary Medicina i Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Biotecnología
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: jorgemanuel.duenas@urv.cat elena.castarlenas@urv.cat fabia.morales@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-8954-7947 0000-0003-0383-2526 0000-0002-2095-0244
Record's date: 2024-08-03
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023061947
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Heliyon. 9 (8):
APA: Martín-Arbós, S; Dueñas, JM; Morales-Vives, F; Castarlenas, E (2023). Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the academic help seeking scale in a sample of adults. Heliyon, 9(8), -. DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18986
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18986
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications