Internal, External and Bilateral factors associated with desertion in university students

• Autores: Zavala-Guirado, Martha, Álvarez, María, A. Vázquez, Mario, González, Isolina, Bazán-Ramírez, Aldo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2018
• Institución: Instituto Peruano de Orientación Psicológica
• Repositorio: Interacciones
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.ejournals.host:article/53
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistainteracciones.com/index.php/rin/article/view/53
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Deserción estudiantil; Educación superior; Abandono Escolar; Deserción Escolar; Scholar Desertion; education administration; student performance

Taking into account twelve indices of factors associated with desertion in university students, a hypothetical model of internal, external and bilateral factors was tested, based on data from a sample consisting of 359 students from a public university in northwestern Mexico. Exploratory and confirmatory factorial analyzes suggested the structuring of three main factors associated with dropout, which agrees with the theoretical model proposed by the authors: 1. Internal Student Factors (ISF), 2. External Student Factors (ESF), and 3. Bilateral Factors (BF). A good divergent and convergent validity of constructs were obtained, with significant parameters for p <0.001, likewise, a confirmatory model with good goodness of fit was obtained (X2 = = 151.94; p = .00001; CFI = .91; RMSEA = .089). However, the factorial structure has slight variations in terms of its components previously specified in the theoretical model, an aspect that will be analyzed in the discussion.