This study aimed to construct and to validate a scale of academic life assessment to obtain the student's self-perception about the academic life. The scale was administered to 1,118 academic students aged 19 to 62 years (M = 25 years, SD = 6 years), and 54 percent of the students were male. The factorial analysis indicated a scale with five factors - academic ambient, course commitment, student's ability, involvement with non obligatory activities, and condition to the study - whose eigenvalues were larger than one, explaining 43 percent of the total variance. The scale included 34 items with factor loadings larger than 0.30, with a good internal consistency indicated by Cronbach coefficient (alpha = 0.873) to evaluate the construct - the students integration with the academic life. Each sub-scale's internal consistency level reached acceptable levels, ranging from 0.631 to 0.803.
academic life; scale validation; undergraduate students; higher education
