Academic Tendency: Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Bolton Uni-Stride Scale (BUSS)

This research was conducted with the aim of analyzing the psychometric properties of the Bolton Uni-Stride Scale (BUSS) (Kannangara et al., 2020) for measuring academic tenacity in Iranian students. Four hundred undergraduate students of Shahid Beheshti University (200 female and 200 male) who were selected through convenience sampling method in the first academic semester of 2022-2023, answered the Bolton Uni-Stride Scale (BUSS), the Brief Regulation of Motivation Scale (BRMS) and the Motivational Persistence Scale (MPS). The results of the principal components analysis supported the one-factor structure of the academic tenacity scale. Further, the results of confirmatory factor analysis also showed that the single-factor structure of the scale had a good fit with the data. In addition, the results related to the correlation between academic tenacity and regulation of motivation and motivational persistence also supported the scale's convergent validity. Cronbach’s alpha for the Bolton Uni-Stride Scale was 0.86. In sum, the results provided convincing evidence in support of the theoretical origin of the Bolton Uni-Stride Scale for measuring academic tenacity and its technical characteristics of validity and reliability in the sample of Iranian students.