The problem of local item dependencies (LIDs) is very common in personality and attitude
measures, particularly in those that measure narrow-bandwidth dimensions. At the structural …

Se ha descubierto que el apoyo social juega un papel clave en ciertos comportamientos
escolares de los adolescentes, y está ampliamente aceptado que fomenta la implicación …

Family involvement has been identified as a mechanism that explains the differences in
academic performance and well-being between students from different socioeconomic …

Social support has been found to play a key role in certain adolescent school behaviours
and it is widely accepted that it fosters school engagement. On the contrary, more recent …

Latino/Hispanics are one of the largest ethnic minority groups in the United States, yet they
are underrepresented in higher education. Grounded on the social cognitive theory and the …

Family-school involvement in the education of children under 6 years of age is a complex
and multidimensional area of study. In this regard, there is a great deal of research that …

Ideally, the items in a scale intended to measure a single dimension of content (eg a trait)
should be related only because of the influence of the common dimension they measure. In …