Development and validation of academic involution scale for college students

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 20876 - 14
• Main Authors: He, Yiqing, Liu, Xinyi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.07.2025; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: Academic involution; Adolescent; Adult; China; Chinese scale; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Male; multidisciplinary; Psychometrics - methods; Reproducibility of Results; Scale development; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Students; Students - psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Universities; Young Adult; China; Scale development; Chinese scale; Students; Academic involution

To develop a scale for assessing the involution among Chinese college students, and to test its reliability and validity within the context of higher education. The scale was developed based on in-depth interviews and existing competition scales. dataset 1 (n = 220) was utilized for exploratory fact...