Help-Seeking in an Academic Context: A Systematic Review

Sergi Martín-Arbós, Elena Castarlenas and Jorge-Manuel Dueñas
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Sergi Martín-Arbós: Department of Psychology, Area of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
Elena Castarlenas: Department of Psychology, Area of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
Jorge-Manuel Dueñas: Department of Psychology, Area of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 8, 1-16

Abstract: Academic help-seeking as a learning strategy can influence academic achievement. Indeed, seeking help when needed is considered a self-regulated learning strategy that should be taken into account from the educational perspective. In this study, we review twenty-five articles published over the last 10 years that have analysed academic help-seeking in adolescents or university students. The aims of this review are to describe the relationship between academic help-seeking and other sociodemographic, educational, and psychosocial variables, and to evaluate the instruments that are used to assess academic help-seeking. Our results show that there is a lack of consensus on the structure of help-seeking as a construct. Moreover, the role of sex and age is unclear, and there is little replication in the correlational models. Further research is needed to better define the construct and compare the variables that influence academic help-seeking at different stages of education.

Keywords: academic help-seeking; high school; university students; college students; help (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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