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Determinants of Academic Help-Seeking Willingness Among Chilean University Students: A Structural Model Analysis

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Through a structural model, this study analyzed how personal and contextual variables explain the student’s willingness to seek institutional academic help. The study involved 848 students of both sexes from public and private Chilean universities. The participants responded to a questionnaire evaluating personal (enabling and inhibitory) and contextual variables. Based on previous evidence from the literature and preliminary regression analysis, an explanatory model of the willingness for academic help-seeking was proposed and evaluated through a structural model (SEM). The results show a good fit of the final model, highlighting direct and indirect determinants of the student’s willingness for academic help-seeking and the mediator role of knowledge of access procedures to institutional support services. Also, and against expectations, a slight effect of shame on willingness to institutional help-seeking was observed. Finally, the implications of having a parsimonious model to explain this process are discussed.

Source: Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research

DOI: 10.17583/remie.13449

Authors: Jorge Valenzuela, Carla Muñoz, Jorge Miranda-Ossandón, Álvaro González- Sanzana

Institutions: Catholic University of the Maule, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Universidad de Magallanes

Language: English

Topic: Higher Education Research Studies

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo