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2024-04-16T09:53:21Z urn:hdl:10259/8952 Psychometric properties of the academic procrastination scale in Spanish university students Martín Antón, Luis Jorge Almeida, Leandro Sáiz Manzanares, María Consuelo Álvarez Cañizo, Marta Carbonero Martín, Miguel Ángel Academic procrastination Confirmatory factor analysis Measurement invariance Higher Education Procrastination in academic activities is common amongst university students, and has negative consequences for their personal as well as academic development. As a result, there is a need for valid –yet at the same time brief and clear-cut– measurement tools that enable the specific procrastinating behaviour of university students to be measured. This work explores in depth the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Academic Procrastination Scale, a widely used brief tool in secondary and higher education in the Spanish speaking world. The scale was applied to a total of 1734 university students, together with the Procrastination Assessment Scale-Students (PASS), the Unintentional Procrastination Scale (UPS) and the Active Procrastination Scale (APS). Factor analyses indicate the best fit is a structure involving four interrelated factors (task aversion, poor time management, low emotional and motivational self-control, and risk assumption) compared to other proposed models. The model presents factorial invariance between men and women, and adequate convergent validity. We discuss the implications of using this scale in higher education, since differentiating the four factors might help to identify different support measures depending on university student needs. 2024-04-16T09:53:21Z 2024-04-16T09:53:21Z 2022-09 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 0260-2938 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8952 10.1080/02602938.2022.2117791 1469-297X eng Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. 2022, V. 48, n. 5, p. 642-656 https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2022.2117791 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 4.0 Internacional Taylor & Francis Group