Open AccessSociodemographic factors associated with academic goals in university students in times of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Jéssica Paola Palacios Garay,
Jorge Luis Escalante Flores,
Juan Carlos Chumacero Calle,
Jaime Tamashiro-Tamashiro
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista tempos e espaços em educação
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2358-1425
pISSN - 1983-6597
DOI - 10.20952/revtee.v14i33.15114
Subject(s) - covid-19 , psychology , pandemic , sample (material) , academic year , medical education , set (abstract data type) , mathematics education , medicine , disease , chemistry , pathology , chromatography , virology , outbreak , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
Motivational processes in students are oriented to the fulfillment of academic goals, therefore, it is one of the significant variables of the study, for this, a student-centered approach was adopted. The present research set out to determine the association of sociodemographic factors with the academic goals of university students from a private university; The sample consisted of 1,400 students from the Health career: 659 (47.1%) were male and 741 (52.9%) were female; The approach was quantitative, of the substantive type, descriptive level, under the non-experimental cross-sectional design; a sociodemographic record was used. Regarding academic goals, the CMA questionnaire was administered. The results showed that the academic goals are associated with the variables sex, age, school of origin and hours of study of the students who participated, since the significance was p <0.05. The data obtained allowed to qualify and quantify the importance of motivation as a transcendent component for the fulfillment of the proposed objectives.