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psychometrics
university students
academic boredom scale
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Abstract
Academic boredom is a psychosocial phenomenon that affects people in the academic context, and instruments to measure it in the Spanish-speaking context are relevant. This study aimed to develop a scale to measure academic boredom. The sample consisted of 1,151 university students in Puerto Rico between the ages of 21 and 57 years (60% female and 40% male). The Academic Boredom Scale was developed and adapted from a Work Boredom Scale. The results showed that the scale has excellent psychometric properties. It is concluded that having a reduced scale that adequately measures the experience of academic boredom will allow the expansion of the development of research on this phenomenon in Spanish-speaking educational contexts that could contribute to the improvement of the academic experience of students.
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