Attitudes, motivations and emotions towards university study. A latent class approach

In the study of university paths both personal and households’ characteristics of the students deeply influence their university outcomes. Students’ attitudes, motivations and emotions towards university study are also very important factors that contribute to explain university achievement. In this work we use a latent class approach to find the underlying latent factors that summarize a series of items investigating different domains of students’ orientations towards university study. Data come from a CAWI survey conducted in 2012 on a cohort of students from Padova University.