TY - JOUR
T1 - University engagement of dental students related to educational environment
T2 - A transnational study
AU - Presoto, Cristina Dupim
AU - Wajngarten, Danielle
AU - Domingos, Patrícia Aleixo dos Santos
AU - Botta, Ana Carolina
AU - Campos, Juliana Alvares Duarte Bonini
AU - Pazos, Júlia Margato
AU - Garcia, Patrícia Petromilli Nordi Sasso
N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright: © 2021 Presoto et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - To investigate the validity and reliability of the University Student Engagement Inventory (USEI) in its complete and reduced versions with Brazilian and USA students, and to evaluate the influence of gender and academic level on students’ university engagement in both countries. Methods A cross-sectional observational study with a non-probability sample was conducted. The sample comprised dental students of both genders, 154 from a university in New York, USA (response rate 91.1%) and 459 from two universities in Brazil (response rate 79.1%). University engagement was measured using the USEI. The samples were characterized by gender and academic level. Results The refined reduced version of the USEI presented adequate fit to the samples from both countries. Gender was associated with the behavioral engagement factor of the USEI in Brazilian students. In the USA sample, gender was associated with the behavioral and cognitive engagement factors. There was a significant effect of academic level on behavioral and emotional engagement for the Brazilian and USA samples, respectively. Conclusion The refined reduced USEI presented adequate psychometric qualities for the study samples.
AB - To investigate the validity and reliability of the University Student Engagement Inventory (USEI) in its complete and reduced versions with Brazilian and USA students, and to evaluate the influence of gender and academic level on students’ university engagement in both countries. Methods A cross-sectional observational study with a non-probability sample was conducted. The sample comprised dental students of both genders, 154 from a university in New York, USA (response rate 91.1%) and 459 from two universities in Brazil (response rate 79.1%). University engagement was measured using the USEI. The samples were characterized by gender and academic level. Results The refined reduced version of the USEI presented adequate fit to the samples from both countries. Gender was associated with the behavioral engagement factor of the USEI in Brazilian students. In the USA sample, gender was associated with the behavioral and cognitive engagement factors. There was a significant effect of academic level on behavioral and emotional engagement for the Brazilian and USA samples, respectively. Conclusion The refined reduced USEI presented adequate psychometric qualities for the study samples.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85118602407
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0259524
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0259524
M3 - Article
C2 - 34735540
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 16
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 11 November
M1 - e0259524
ER -