Analyzing the psychometric properties of the revised Early University Leaving Intention Questionnaire

Abstract

The current high rate of academic dropout in the university system necessitates early identification of first-year students' intentions to drop out to detect potential risk cases. This paper reports a linguistic adaptation of the revised version of the Early University Dropout Intentions Questionnaire (EUDIQ-R) and an analysis of its psychometric properties in an Argentine population. Participants were 747 first-year university students from Argentina. The instrument was adapted to the local idiom. The internal three-factor structure of the EUDIQ-R was then verified through confirmatory factor analysis. The internal consistency was adequate. Factorial invariance analysis verified the metric equivalence of the instrument's structure between samples of students from Argentina and Spain. Finally, evidence of concurrent validity was obtained using an instrument that assesses academic engagement. This study provides adequate evidence of the validity and reliability of the EUDIQ-R, which can be used to identify early dropout intentions in first-year university students.