RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Psychometric properties of the academic procrastination scale in Spanish university students
A1 Martín Antón, Luis Jorge
A1 Almeida, Leandro
A1 Sáiz Manzanares, María Consuelo
A1 Álvarez Cañizo, Marta
A1 Carbonero Martín, Miguel Ángel
K1 Academic procrastination
K1 Confirmatory factor analysis
K1 Measurement invariance
K1 Higher Education
K1 Enseñanza superior
K1 Education, Higher
K1 Psicología
K1 Psychology
AB 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.
PB Taylor & Francis Group
SN 0260-2938
YR 2022
FD 2022-09
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8952
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8952
LA eng
NO This work was funded by project no. VA088G18 corresponding to subsidies to the Recognized Research Groups of the Public Universities of Castilla y León, Spain (Order of November 20, 2017, BOCYL No. 225, of November 23). and Grant from the “Vicerrectorado de Investigación, transferencia e Innovación de la Universidad de Burgos” to GIR DATAHES No. Y143.GI.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 17-may-2024