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- Title
A latent profile analysis of first-year university students' academic expectations.
- Authors
Araújo, Alexandra M.; Assis Gomes, Cristiano Mauro; Almeida, Leandro S.; Núñez, José Carlos
- Abstract
Academic expectations are an important variable in the explanation of adaptation and academic success in higher education. This paper uses latent profile analysis as a person-centered statistical approach to classify students into groups of similar types of expectations for higher education, at the beginning of the first year in university. Participants were 2,478 first-year Portuguese students. Based on the scores of seven dimensions of expectations, we identified six classes of students. Most students (84%) presented moderate levels of expectations, while 8% and 4%, respectively, reported very high and low expectations. One class represented a group of students (4%) with high expectations for the quality of education and for political engagement and citizenship and lower expectations for social interaction and attending to social pressures. Male and older students showed more positive expectations. Students from privileged family backgrounds are more likely to present higher expectations for political engagement and citizenship experiences, and lower expectations for social interaction and leisure and attending to social pressures.
- Subjects
HIGHER education; STUDENT political activity; COLLEGE students; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); PORTUGUESE students; EDUCATIONAL quality; SOCIAL interaction; CITIZENSHIP; LATENT class analysis (Statistics)
- Publication
Anales de Psicología, 2019, Vol 35, Issue 1, p58
- ISSN
0212-9728
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6018/analesps.35.1.299351