Academic Motivation Scale: adaptation and psychometric analyses for high school and college students

cademic Motivation Scale: adaptation and psychometric analyses for high school and college students Original Research (2372) Total Article Views Authors: Stover JB, de la Iglesia G, Rial Boubeta A, Fernández Liporace M Published Date July 2012 Volume 2012:5 Pages 71 - 83 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S33188 Received: 21 April 2012 Accepted: 25 May 2012 Published: 25 July 2012 Juliana Beatriz Stover,1 Guadalupe de la Iglesia,1 Antonio Ria,l Boubeta,2 Mercedes Fernández Liporace1 1Buenos Aires University and National Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Abstract: The Academic Motivation Scale (AMS), supported in Self-Determination Theory, has been applied in recent decades as well in high school as in college education. Although several versions in Spanish are available, the underlying linguistic and cultural differences raise important issues when they are applied to Latin-American population. Consequently an adapted version of the AMS was developed, and its construct validity was analyzed in Argentine students. Results obtained on a sample that included 723 students from Buenos Aires (393 high school and 330 college students) verified adequate psychometric properties in this new version, solving some controversies regarded to its dimensionality.