Strategic, motivational and emotional aspects of university study. A latent class approach

University outcomes are strictly related to students’ atti tudes, motivations and emotions towards university study. These factors, as well as persona l and households character- istics of the students, deeply influence study path. In this w ork we use a latent class approach (McMoutcheon, 1987) to find the underlying latent f actors that summarize a series of items investigating students’ position as regard s four domains: strategic skills, emotions, motivations, and resilience. Data come from a CAW I survey conducted in 2012 on a cohort of students enrolled in academic year 2006/0 7 at Padova University (Clerici et al., 2012). Results show that the underlying lat ent factors are in line with psy- chological literature and they can be used in regression mod els as explicative variables, along with personal and households’ characteristics of the students, to explain more in depth students’ university outcomes.