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Revista Digital de Investigación en Docencia Universitaria
On-line version ISSN 2223-2516
Abstract
GONZALEZ CASTRO, Isolina; VAZQUEZ GARCIA, Mario Alberto and ZAVALA GUIRADO, Martha Alejandrina. Demotivation and its relation with academic and psychosocial factors in university students. Rev. Digit. Invest. Docencia Univ. [online]. 2021, vol.15, n.2, e1392. ISSN 2223-2516. http://dx.doi.org/10.19083/ridu.2021.1392.
Introduction
: School dropout represents a problem among higher education institutions, that prevails and affects the professional development of students. Objective: Prove relations between demotivation, teaching skills, satisfaction of academic expectations and tutoring in a University in a South of Sonora, México.
Method
: A scale of factors associated with dropping out was used (Tutoring Scale, Scale of Satisfaction of Academic Expectations, Scale of Teaching Competencies and Scale of Motivation), applied to 359 students from 6 different professions, chosen at random where 161 were men, 191 women, aged from 18 to 51 years old.
Results
: Tutoring, academic expectations satisfaction and teaching competences had a positive and significative covariances among these constructs. Regarding the demotivation factor, it was appreciated a negative covariance with the remaining constructs, which suggest the presence of divergent validity between this and the rest of the constructs.
Conclusion
: At higher levels of tutoring, academic and teaching competences expectations satisfaction, there will be lower levels of demotivation. The limitations of the study are discussed.
Keywords : Quality of education; education and development; pedagogical innovation; motivation; tutoring (education).