Help-Seeking in an Academic Context: A Systematic Review

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