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Eastern Illinois University

Undergraduate Honors Theses

2013

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Reliability And Validity Of The Academic Maturity Scale, Erin L. Mcelroy Apr 2013

Reliability And Validity Of The Academic Maturity Scale, Erin L. Mcelroy

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Academic maturity is defined as the extent to which college students maximize their academic potentials. Addison, Althoff, and Pezold (2009) designed the 100-item Academic Maturity Scale (AMS) to measure this construct. Through factor analyses, the AMS was reduced to 30 items and four factors: motivation, responsibility, focus, and time management. The current study examined the reliability and validity of the 30-item AMS. Data from 425 participants supported the internal consistency of the AMS subscales, and results from 88 participants who completed the AMS, the Academic Motivation Scale (Vallerand et al., 1992), and the Time Management Questionnaire (TMQ; Britton & Tesser, …