Determinantes do desempenho acadêmico na área de negócios: uma análise de variáveis comportamentais

Abstract

There are many factors that can affect the student’s performance, some of them can be psychological and they can be associated to the teachers’ behavior. This study had the aim to identify whether the behavioral variables influenced the academic’s performance in the Accounting Sciences courses and Administration in a public IES. It is a quantitative and dissertative search. The data were collected in a primary way through a questionnaire based on five psychological constructs: self-esteem, selfefficacy, self-control, optimism and control locus which was applied to seventy-four students from the Accounting Sciences course and fifty-seven students from the Administration course. The main results suggest that: (i) women have the best performance in relation to the men; (ii) the behavioral variable self-control presented a relation with the academic’s performance in the sense that the students who consume alcoholic beverages not only on weekends present an inferior performance in relation to the students who do not consume alcoholic beverages or who does it only on weekends; (iii) the respondent’s age do not influence his/her academic performance; (iv) the behavioral variable self-esteem did not present relation to the student’s performance; and, (v) the academic’s marital status also did not present relation to his/her performance. In general, it was realized that the courses which were the object of this study, the most part of the behavioral variable researched did not present a significant relation to the student’s performance, although in the case of the self-control variable it indicated an influence in the performance. It is possible to realize that think about the consequences of the actions before making a decision and make the best choice compared to the conflicting situations show an allied of the students thus they can obtain the best academic performance.