title: The Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ) for use with Spanish students.
abstract: The main purpose of this study was to adapt the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ) for use with Spanish students and to examine the psychometric properties of the scores. The adapted version of the scale was applied to a sample of 300 first-year university students. The internal consistency of the full scale and of the subscales was adequate, although the structure of the scale, analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis, did not fit satisfactorily to the four-factor model proposed by Baker and Siryk. The goodness of fit of each of four one-factor models, corresponding to each subscale, was tested separately in order to propose a short form of the scale. The resulting scale, comprising 50 items, shows high internal consistency and the relationships between its dimensions are consistent with those obtained in other studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Methodological Psychology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. msoledad.rodriguez@usc.es
authors.forename: María Soledad
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Rodríguez González
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tinajero Vacas
authors.forename: María Adelina
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Guisande Couñago
authors.forename: María Fernánda
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Páramo Fernández
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013030:Spain; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D014495:Universities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult