Development and validation of the motivation to publish scale-scientific articles (EMP-AC) for Peruvian university students

• Autores: Tito Betancur, Madona, Mamani-Benito, Oscar, Torres-Miranda2, Julio, Apaza-Tarqui, Edison Effer, Morales-García, Wilter C., Turpo-Chaparro, Josué Edison
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
• Repositorio: UTP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.utp.edu.pe:20.500.12867/7815
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12867/7815; https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1022876
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Motivation; University students; Scientific research; Research papers; Scale development; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.03.01; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.01.03

Objective: To design and validate the motivation to publish scale-scientific articles (EMP-AC) for Peruvian university students. Methods: This was an instrumental study in which 653 health, business, humanities and engineering students from private and state universities in the 3 regions of Peru participated. The scale was designed in 5 stages following international standards. The internal structure was assessed through both an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). Results: The content analysis by expert judges also supported the representativeness of the items related to the construction. The internal structure of the 13-item scale was confirmed through the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) which showed a structure of three factors: commitment, behavior, and intentional state as initially proposed. Previous analyses of goodness of fit indices were satisfactory (χ2 (167) = 276.93, p  <  0.001; CFI = 0.95; TLI = 0.93; RMSEA = 0.07 [0.06–0.08]; SRMR = 0.06). Conclusion: The EMP-AC shows initial evidence of validity and reliability; therefore, it can be applied in the study of the motivation to publish scientific articles by Peruvian university students.