The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children
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Resumo: | Abstract Background: Several studies have focused on the assessment of students' motivation because this construct is very important to understand students' learning and how to enhance it. The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ-A), based on the self-determination theory is a self-report instrument developed to access the reasons why students do their school work. However, there is no Portuguese version of this questionnaire for late elementary students. The primary goal of this research was to analyze the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of SRQ-A in the domain of Mathematics with elementary school children. Methods: Participants were 341 elementary school children ranging from 8 to 11 years old from the third and fourth grades. The Portuguese version of the SRQ-A included 24 items assessing four regulatory styles (external, introjected, identified, and intrinsic) in three behavioral categories (homework, classwork, and answering questions in mathematics lessons). To examine the psychometric properties of the instrument, we conducted an exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), measured gender and grade invariance, and calculated internal consistency indexes and temporal stability. Results: ESEM analyses supported the original multidimensional structure of the measure with four regulatory styles using a reduced version of the instrument with 16 items. Correlations between the four regulatory styles revealed a simplex pattern consistent with the continuum of self-determination theory. Results showed adequate internal consistency for all regulatory styles (α ≥ .73; CR ≥ .76) and temporal stability (4-month test-retest ≥ .43). The questionnaire showed measurement and structural invariance across gender and grade. Finally, some gender differences were observed; on average, boys scored higher than girls in external regulation. No differences were observed between grades. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the Portuguese version of the SRQ-A has good psychometric properties providing adequate support for its use in educational research on motivational styles, including studies concerning gender and grade differences in self-regulation. |
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The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school childrenSelf-determination theoryMotivationRegulatory stylesElementary school childrenMathematicsAbstract Background: Several studies have focused on the assessment of students' motivation because this construct is very important to understand students' learning and how to enhance it. The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ-A), based on the self-determination theory is a self-report instrument developed to access the reasons why students do their school work. However, there is no Portuguese version of this questionnaire for late elementary students. The primary goal of this research was to analyze the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of SRQ-A in the domain of Mathematics with elementary school children. Methods: Participants were 341 elementary school children ranging from 8 to 11 years old from the third and fourth grades. The Portuguese version of the SRQ-A included 24 items assessing four regulatory styles (external, introjected, identified, and intrinsic) in three behavioral categories (homework, classwork, and answering questions in mathematics lessons). To examine the psychometric properties of the instrument, we conducted an exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), measured gender and grade invariance, and calculated internal consistency indexes and temporal stability. Results: ESEM analyses supported the original multidimensional structure of the measure with four regulatory styles using a reduced version of the instrument with 16 items. Correlations between the four regulatory styles revealed a simplex pattern consistent with the continuum of self-determination theory. Results showed adequate internal consistency for all regulatory styles (α ≥ .73; CR ≥ .76) and temporal stability (4-month test-retest ≥ .43). The questionnaire showed measurement and structural invariance across gender and grade. Finally, some gender differences were observed; on average, boys scored higher than girls in external regulation. No differences were observed between grades. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the Portuguese version of the SRQ-A has good psychometric properties providing adequate support for its use in educational research on motivational styles, including studies concerning gender and grade differences in self-regulation.Curso de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul2019-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-79722019000103304Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica v.32 2019reponame:Psicologia (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Online)instname:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)instacron:UFRGS10.1186/s41155-019-0124-5info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessGomes,MartaMonteiro,VeraMata,LourdesPeixoto,FranciscoSantos,NatalieSanches,Cristinaeng2019-05-16T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S0102-79722019000103304Revistahttps://www.scielo.br/j/prc/ONGhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phpprc@springeropen.com1678-71530102-7972opendoar:2019-05-16T00:00Psicologia (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Online) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)false |
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The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children |
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The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children |
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The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children Gomes,Marta Self-determination theory Motivation Regulatory styles Elementary school children Mathematics |
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The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children |
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The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children |
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The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children |
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The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children |
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The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children |
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Gomes,Marta |
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Gomes,Marta Monteiro,Vera Mata,Lourdes Peixoto,Francisco Santos,Natalie Sanches,Cristina |
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Monteiro,Vera Mata,Lourdes Peixoto,Francisco Santos,Natalie Sanches,Cristina |
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Gomes,Marta Monteiro,Vera Mata,Lourdes Peixoto,Francisco Santos,Natalie Sanches,Cristina |
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Self-determination theory Motivation Regulatory styles Elementary school children Mathematics |
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Self-determination theory Motivation Regulatory styles Elementary school children Mathematics |
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Abstract Background: Several studies have focused on the assessment of students' motivation because this construct is very important to understand students' learning and how to enhance it. The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ-A), based on the self-determination theory is a self-report instrument developed to access the reasons why students do their school work. However, there is no Portuguese version of this questionnaire for late elementary students. The primary goal of this research was to analyze the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of SRQ-A in the domain of Mathematics with elementary school children. Methods: Participants were 341 elementary school children ranging from 8 to 11 years old from the third and fourth grades. The Portuguese version of the SRQ-A included 24 items assessing four regulatory styles (external, introjected, identified, and intrinsic) in three behavioral categories (homework, classwork, and answering questions in mathematics lessons). To examine the psychometric properties of the instrument, we conducted an exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), measured gender and grade invariance, and calculated internal consistency indexes and temporal stability. Results: ESEM analyses supported the original multidimensional structure of the measure with four regulatory styles using a reduced version of the instrument with 16 items. Correlations between the four regulatory styles revealed a simplex pattern consistent with the continuum of self-determination theory. Results showed adequate internal consistency for all regulatory styles (α ≥ .73; CR ≥ .76) and temporal stability (4-month test-retest ≥ .43). The questionnaire showed measurement and structural invariance across gender and grade. Finally, some gender differences were observed; on average, boys scored higher than girls in external regulation. No differences were observed between grades. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the Portuguese version of the SRQ-A has good psychometric properties providing adequate support for its use in educational research on motivational styles, including studies concerning gender and grade differences in self-regulation. |
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