Abstract

DINIZ, António M.  and  ALMEIDA, Leandro S.. Escala de Integração Social no Ensino Superior (EISES): Metodologia de construção e validação. Aná. Psicológica [online]. 2005, vol.23, n.4, pp.461-476. ISSN 0870-8231.

This article presents the construction and validation process of the Escala de Integração Social no Ensino Superior (EISES) [College Social Integration Scale (CSIS)]. That process ends with the test of two hypothetical factorial structures (bi and tridimensional; both hierarchic) (LISREL8-SIMPLIS). The participants were first-year students of the University of Minho (convenience sampling). Two studies were made, one exploratory (N= 142) and the other confirmatory (N=447). They showed the difficulties of defining two scale dimensions more strictly related with the institutional context. In their initial phase of academic involvement, student’s concerns are mainly related to personal well-being and to interpersonal relationships, dimensions of the personal and peer satisfaction (hierarchic bidimensional factorial structure). These dimensions and the emotional equilibrium (hierarchic tridimensional factorial structure) reflect the problematic domains of students’ social integration. Finally, we discuss the scale’s validity and its utilization in research and counseling with students.

Keywords : Higher Education; first-year students; social integration scale; factorial validity.

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