Adaptation and validation in spanish of the state motivation scale in university students

Abstract

In the college classroom, student state motivation can be influenced by many factors, being one of them students' perceptions of teachers' behaviors. The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the Spanish version of the State Motivation Scale (Christophel, 1990) in a sample of university students. The participants were 344 students from the University of Seville. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported the unifactorial structure proposed in the original model. Invariance across gender was found and evidence of concurrent validity with teacher credibility. It is concluded that the State Motivation Scale has appropriate psychometric properties to measure state motivation in Spanish-speaking university students