Val-U

Psychometric properties of a Values and Civic Attitudes Scale for University Students' Service-Learning

Bibliographic Data

ID4407336
AuthorsYolanda Ruiz-Ordóñez, Yolanda Ruiz Ordóñez (0000-0002-0880-3970, Valencia Catholic University Saint Vincent Martyr), Amparo Salcedo-Mateu (Valencia Catholic University Saint Vincent Martyr), Ángel Turbi (Valencia Catholic University Saint Vincent Martyr), Carlos Novella, Carlos Novella García (0000-0002-3841-6760, Valencia Catholic University Saint Vincent Martyr), Carmen Moret-Tatay (0000-0002-2867-9399, Valencia Catholic University Saint Vincent Martyr, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume35
Issue1
Pages3-3
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsicologia Reflexão e Crítica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-7972 • E-ISSN: 1678-7153
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/s41155-021-00206-8
PMID34982289
OpenAlexW4205599387
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited29

The service-learning disciplines can offer a unique opportunity for civic development in university students, as there is a large body of research that links it to values and civic attitudes including a vast number of ecological issues and citizen variables. Moreover, one should bear in mind that these students are future generations that will face many pressing social and environmental issues. Given the need to develop instruments to measure the impact of a service-learning methodology in university students' values as well as civic attitudes, VAL-U is proposed. As the university can be considered a learning step prior to the professional field, the main objective of this study was to analyse the internal consistency and factor structure of the proposed VAL-U scale in the Spanish population. The scale confirmed acceptable psychometric properties. Furthermore, the results have shown high reliability and optimal goodness of fit. Promising results are offered to employ VAL-U as a valuable tool for assessing Values and Civic Attitudes Scale for Spanish-speaking University Students' Service-Learning

Cartography · Consistency (knowledge bases) · Face (sociological concept) · Geography · Goodness of fit · Internal consistency · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Population · Psychometrics · Reliability (semiconductor) · Scale (ratio) · Service (business) · Service-learning · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Clinical Psychology · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Marketing · Mathematics · Psychology · Service-Learning and Community Engagement · Social Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support

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