Analyzing the Psychometric Properties of the Revised Early University Leaving Intention Questionnaire

FREIBERG HOFFMANN, A.; MOTTA, F.; BERNARDO, A.; VIGH, C.

Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences

PsychOpen

Año: 2026

The current high rate of academic dropout in theuniversity system necessitates early identification of first-year students'intentions to drop out to detect potential risk cases. This paper reports alinguistic adaptation of the revised version of the Early University DropoutIntentions Questionnaire (EUDIQ-R) and an analysis of its psychometricproperties in an Argentine population. Participants were 747 first-yearuniversity students from Argentina. The instrument was adapted to the localidiom. The internal three-factor structure of the EUDIQ-R was then verifiedthrough confirmatory factor analysis. The internal consistency was adequate.Factorial invariance analysis verified the metric equivalence of theinstrument's structure between samples of students from Argentina and Spain.Finally, evidence of concurrent validity was obtained using an instrument thatassesses academic engagement. This study provides adequate evidence of thevalidity and reliability of the EUDIQ-R, which can be used to identify earlydropout intentions in first-year university students.