Abstract

Seeking help when confronted with academic difficulties is an adaptive self-regulated learning strategy that facilitates positive academic outcomes. However, many students are reluctant to seek help with academic difficulties. The current study used the Reasoned Action Model to investigate the determinants of students' intentions to utilize university-based sources of academic support. Participants (N = 125) in Study 1 responded to open-ended questions designed to identify salient behavioral, normative, and control beliefs contributing to the use of university-based academic support services. Participants (N = 176) in Study 2 completed measures to assess attitudes, perceived normative pressure, perceived behavioral control, and behavioral intentions. Normative pressure was the strongest predictor of intentions to use university-based academic support, followed by attitudes. These results suggest that interventions targeting normative and behavioral beliefs may be effective in increasing academic help-seeking.

Description

This article is originally published in Frontiers in Education - Educational Psychology, under a Creative Commons BY license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00059

Publisher

Frontiers in Education - Educational Psychology

Date of publication

6-27-2019

Language

english

Persistent identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10950/2671

Document Type

Article

Publisher Citation

Thomas, C. L., & Tagler, M. J. (2019). Predicting academic help-seeking intentions using the reasoned action model. Frontiers in Education, 4(59).

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