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Gomes, M., Monteiro, V., Mata, L., Peixoto, F., Santos, N., & Sanches, C. (2019). The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children. Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS, 32(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41155-019-0124-5
Gomes, Marta, et al. "The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children." Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS vol. 32,1 (2019): 8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41155-019-0124-5
Gomes M, Monteiro V, Mata L, Peixoto F, Santos N, Sanches C. The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children. Psicol Reflex Crit. 2019 Apr 11;32(1):8. doi: 10.1186/s41155-019-0124-5. PMID: 32026082; PMCID: PMC6966964.
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Psicol Reflex Crit. 2019 Apr 11;32(1):8. doi: 10.1186/s41155-019-0124-5.

The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire: a study with Portuguese elementary school children.

Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS

Marta Gomes, Vera Monteiro, Lourdes Mata, Francisco Peixoto, Natalie Santos, Cristina Sanches

Affiliations

  1. Department of Educational Psychology, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Rua Jardim do Tabaco, 34, 1149-041, Lisbon, Portugal.
  2. Department of Educational Psychology, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Rua Jardim do Tabaco, 34, 1149-041, Lisbon, Portugal. [email protected].
  3. Centro de Investigação em Educação (CIE - ISPA), Lisbon, Portugal. [email protected].
  4. Centro de Investigação em Educação (CIE - ISPA), Lisbon, Portugal.

PMID: 32026082 PMCID: PMC6966964 DOI: 10.1186/s41155-019-0124-5

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.

Keywords: Elementary school children; Mathematics; Motivation; Regulatory styles; Self-determination theory

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