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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Executive functions are vital for academic success in university settings.
  • Conscious regulation of behavior, attention, and emotion significantly impacts professional training.
  • Existing assessment tools may not adequately capture these functions in diverse student populations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a psychometrically sound scale for assessing executive functions in university students.
  • To provide a reliable instrument for evaluating cognitive skills relevant to academic and professional development.
  • To adapt executive function assessment for the Latin American university context.

Main Methods:

  • A scale was developed to assess seven key executive functions.
  • Psychometric properties were analyzed using reliability and validity tests.
  • Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted on a sample of 1,373 university students from Chile and Ecuador.

Main Results:

  • The developed scale exhibited adequate internal consistency (α = 0.71–0.85).
  • The seven executive functions showed proportional correlations (r = 0.42–0.62).
  • Confirmatory factor analysis yielded good fit indices (CFI = 0.91, SRMR = 0.04, RMSEA = 0.04).

Conclusions:

  • The new scale possesses the necessary psychometric properties for assessing executive functions in the Latin American university setting.
  • This research contributes a validated instrument for understanding and supporting student cognitive development.
  • The findings support the applicability of the executive function scale across diverse cultural contexts within Latin America.