Validation of the executive function strategy awareness and use questionnaire (SAUQ) in a university student population. Issue 6 (24th August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wallace, Alannah; Hoskyn, Maureen
• Is Part Of: Journal of American college health. Volume 70:Issue 6(2022)
• Page Start: 1810
• Page End: 1818
• Publication Date: 2022-08-24
• Subjects: Executive function -- exploratory factor analysis -- strategy use -- university students; College students -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- Periodicals; College students -- Health and hygiene -- Periodicals; College students -- Mental health -- Periodicals; Universities and colleges -- Health promotion services -- Periodicals; 362.10883781980973
• DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2020.1825224
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0744-8481

Abstract

Abstract: Objective: The aim of the study is to design and evaluate the Strategy Awareness and Use Questionnaire to estimate students' awareness and use of strategies that optimize control of attention and/or compensate for stress on an executive system due to environmental and/or neurobiological influences. Participants: One hundred and forty-eight undergraduate and graduate students from various disciplines at an urban Canadian university campus participated in the Spring 2019 semester. Methods: An item analysis was conducted that included an assessment of dimensionality and item trimming. Results: Findings from an exploratory factor analysis suggest a seven-factor solution is optimal; Comprehension Monitoring, Planning/Organization, Self-Reward, Self-Regulation, Organization with Mobile Phone Technology, Regulating Technology, and Organization of Materials. Conclusion: This measure is likely to benefit students, as well as counselors and coaches interested in improving EF strategy use among students in a university population.