Effect of personal and contextual factors of regulation on academic achievement during adolescence: the role of gender and age

This investigation aimed to analyze the predictive differential value of personal (self-reg-ulation, self-efficacy, procrastination) and contextual characteristics (parents´ socio-educational level), regarding academic achievement, among Colombian adolescents. A total of 430 students (from 11 to 18 years old) from both genders filled out validated self-reports and informed their academic achievement. We performed an ex-post-facto design, simple regression analyses, structural equations predictions analyses (SEM), and variance analyses (ANOVAs). The results showed that self-regulation is the most potent personal variable predictive of procrastination and achieve-ment, positively associated with self-efficacy; additionally, the parents´ educational level was also a predictor, although to a lesser level. The female group and the elderly group negatively predicted academic achievement, behaving as modulatory variables of the above results. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.