Heavy study investment in Spanish college students: psychometric properties of the studyholism inventories (SI-10 and SI-15) ( Alta inversión en el estudio en estudiantes universitarios españoles: propiedades psicométricas de los inventarios de obsesión por el estudio — SI-10 y SI-15 )

Abstract

Loscalzo and Giannini coined the term 'Studyholism' to define a new potential clinical condition associated with problematic overstudying. The Studyholism Inventory (SI-10) and the Studyholism Inventory -Extended Version (SI-15) are the instruments for its evaluation. We aimed to validate their Spanish translations and to define the SI-10 cut-off scores to screen the following types of student: engaged studyholic, disengaged studyholic, engaged student and detached student. We conducted Confirmatory Factor Analysis, convergent, divergent and concurrent validity analyses on 390 college students (M age = 30.34 ± 10.59). We found that the SI-10 and the SI-15 hold the factor structure and the good psychometric properties of the original versions. Also, the SI-10 cut-off scores for high and low Studyholism/Study Engagement arose as the same used for Italian students. Finally, Studyholism is widespread among Spanish college students, especially in the form of engaged Studyholism; hence, it deserves to be further studied in Spain.

Heavy Study Investment in Indonesian College Students: Do Studyholism and Study Engagement Predict Academic Resilience?

“…Given the spread of Studyholism (or obsession toward study) among Western college students (Loscalzo, 2019;Loscalzo & Giannini, 2020;Loscalzo et al, 2023) and its downsides (Loscalzo, 2021;Loscalzo & Giannini, 2019, 2022c, the present study analyzed this new potential clinical condition in a sample of (non-Western) Indonesian college students. More specifically, we examined the relationship of Heavy Study Investment (HSI) with an academic variable that has not been addressed so far by Studyholism literature, namely academic resilience (evaluated using the Academic Resilience Scale-ARS; Cassidy, 2016;Kumalasari et al, 2020).…”