Student adaptation to college questionnaire (CAVU): development, factor structure and initial validation

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Published: Dec 10, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v6.n3.7951
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adaptation, university life, transition, freshmen

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Maria Noel Rodriguez-Ayan
Universidad de la República. Facultad de Química. Unidad Académica de Educación Química
María Eugenia Sotelo
Universidad de la República. Facultad de Química. Unidad Académica de Educación Química

Abstract

Student adjustment to college is a stressful change that may influence students’ achievement. This paper presents a questionnaire developed to measure students’ adaptation to college (CAVU) and its psychometric properties among Uruguayan freshmen. The CAVU is grounded in the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ) and surveys students’ adaptation in three dimensions: academic, social and institutional. As hypothesized, the three components  positively correlate with learning goals, while academic and institutional dimensions negatively correlate with emotional exhaustion, but those are weak associations, with |r| < .30; academic and social adaptation predict academic achievement. Opposite to our prediction, social dimension and emotional exhaustion do not correlate and institutional dimension has a negative effect on achievement.

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Rodriguez-Ayan, M. N., & Sotelo, M. E. (2014). Student adaptation to college questionnaire (CAVU): development, factor structure and initial validation. Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 6(3), 40–49. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v6.n3.7951
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Vol. 6 No. 3 (2014): Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento
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Maria Noel Rodriguez-Ayan, Universidad de la República. Facultad de Química. Unidad Académica de Educación Química

Profesora Agregada, Directora de la Unidad Académica de Educación Química. Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República.

María Eugenia Sotelo, Universidad de la República. Facultad de Química. Unidad Académica de Educación Química

Asistente, área Análisis de Datos, Unidad Académica de Educación Química, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República.

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