AUTHOR=Mamani-Benito Oscar , Torres-Miranda Julio , Apaza-Tarqui Edison Effer , Tito-Betancur Madona , Morales-García Wilter C. , Turpo-Chaparro Josué Edison 

TITLE=Development and validation of the motivation to publish scale-scientific articles (EMP-AC) for Peruvian university students

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Education

VOLUME=8

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1022876

DOI=10.3389/feduc.2023.1022876

ISSN=2504-284X

ABSTRACT=<sec id="sec1"><title>Objective</title><p>To design and validate the motivation to publish scale-scientific articles (EMP-AC) for Peruvian university students.</p></sec><sec id="sec2"><title>Methods</title><p>This was an instrumental study in which 653 health, business, humanities and engineering students from private and state universities in the 3 regions of Peru participated. The scale was designed in 5 stages following international standards. The internal structure was assessed through both an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA).</p></sec><sec id="sec3"><title>Results</title><p>The content analysis by expert judges also supported the representativeness of the items related to the construction. The internal structure of the 13-item scale was confirmed through the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) which showed a structure of three factors: commitment, behavior, and intentional state as initially proposed. Previous analyses of goodness of fit indices were satisfactory (<italic>χ</italic><sup>2</sup> (167) = 276.93, <italic>p</italic>  &lt;  0.001; CFI = 0.95; TLI = 0.93; RMSEA = 0.07 [0.06–0.08]; SRMR = 0.06).</p></sec><sec id="sec4"><title>Conclusion</title><p>The EMP-AC shows initial evidence of validity and reliability; therefore, it can be applied in the study of the motivation to publish scientific articles by Peruvian university students.</p></sec>