Spanish Version of the Time Management Behavior Questionnaire for University Students

Abstract

The main objective of the study is to analyze the psychometric properties and predictive capacity on academic performance in university contexts of a Spanish adaptation of the Time Management Behavior Questionnaire. The scale was applied to 462 students newly admitted at the Universitat de València in the 2006-2007 school year. The analyses performed made it possible to reproduce the factorial structure of the original version of the questionnaire with slight modifications in the ascription of various ítems. The underlying factorial structure includes four interrelated dimensions (Establishing objectives and priorities, Time management tools, Perception of time control and Preference for disorganization), which present satisfactory levels of reliability and an adequate convergent validity with the Time management subscale of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire. The scores on the dimensions of time management show significant levels of association with academic performance in the first year of university studies, especially highlighting the predictive capacity of the subscale dealing with the Establishment of objectives and priorities. These results show the reliability and validity of this adaptation of the scale for evaluating how the students manage their academic time, and predicting their performance in the year they initiate the degree program, thus aiding in the development of intervention proposals directed towards improving these skills.

Adaptive Tele-Therapies Based on Serious Games for Health for People with Time-Management and Organisational Problems: Preliminary Results

“…The evaluation of participants’ time management skills was done by using a Spanish validated version of the TMB Questionnaire [66]. This questionnaire consists of 34 items divided into four different areas; please refer to Table 3 for details.…”

“…This scale was chosen for its prestige and validity in the measurement of time management skills, especially for the age range selected in the test. The Spanish version was validated and accepted [66,67]. The aim of this questionnaire was to learn about and analyse the management skills of the participating users.…”

Chronos: A tool to develop the time management competence among engineering students

“…The data for this study were collected using surveys as measure instrument and consistent with recent literature (e.g., ). Questionnaires include general information (sex, engineering degree, and year), a set of questions to assess the time management competence, and another questionnaire to get information about the students’ perceptions.…”

Gestión del tiempo en alumnado universitario con diferentes niveles de rendimiento académico

“…Confirmaríamos por tanto los resultados obtenidos en estudios anteriores (BASILA, 2014;PUJOL, 2012;GARCÍA-ROS;PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, 2012;MACCANN;FOGARTY;ROBERTS, 2012). Sin embargo, la intensidad de esta relación (r=0,122) no es elevada y se sitúa en niveles próximos a los hallados en la mayoría de los trabajos precedentes, donde la asociación entre ambas variables alcanza valores discretos.…”

“…En ese trabajo, el rendimiento fue calculado como media de las calificaciones obtenidas por los estudiantes durante cuatro cursos académicos. Investigaciones más recientes han arrojado resultados que apuntan en la misma dirección (BASILA, 2014;PUJOL, 2012;GARCÍA-ROS;PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, 2012;MACCANN;FOGARTY;ROBERTS, 2012), subrayando la vinculación entre resultados académicos y manejo del tiempo. Por otra parte, se ha apreciado un incremento del rendimiento del alumnado tras participar en programas focalizados en la mejora de sus competencias académicas y en la gestión del tiempo (KITSANTAS; WINSLER; HUIE, 2008;PEHLIVAN, 2013;ROBBINS et al, 2009).…”