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El objetivo del presente estudio predictivo fue analizar el grado de influencia de la satisfacción con los estudios (SE) sobre la procrastinación académica (PA). Fueron evaluados 148 estudiantes de Psicología (111 mujeres) entre 18 y 32 años (M = 22.41) con la Escala Breve de Satisfacción con los Estudios y la Escala de Procrastinación Académica. Luego de análisis preliminares enfocados en la confiabilidad de las puntuaciones (± > .70) y las correlaciones entre dimensiones, fue realizado un análisis de regresión para determinar cuánta variabilidad en los puntajes de las dimensiones de la PA es explicada a partir de las variaciones en la SE. Para ello, fue empleado un método que utiliza las correlaciones bivariadas corregidas por atenuación y brinda intervalos de confianza bajo un enfoque bootstrap de los estadísticos asociados. Todos los análisis fueron valorados desde un enfoque de magnitud del efecto. Los resultados indican que la influencia de la SE sobre la PA no fue significativa. Estos hallazgos brindan nuevas rutas para implementar estudios a fin de comprender la conducta procrastinadora en el ámbito universitario.
The aim of this predictive study was to analyze the degree of influence of study satisfaction (SS) on academic procrastination (AP). One hundred forty-eight (148) psychology students (111 women) between 18 and 32 years old (M = 22.41) were evaluated using the Brief Scale of Study Satisfaction and the Academic Procrastination Scale. After preliminary analyses focused on the scores reliability (± > .70) and correlations between dimensions, a regression analysis was performed to determine how much of the variability in the AP dimensions scores is explained by the variations in the SS. For that purpose, a method that uses bivariate correlations corrected for attenuation and provides confidence intervals under a bootstrap approach of the associated statistics was applied. All analyses were assessed from an effect size approach. The results indicate that the influence of SS on AP was not significant. These findings provide new ways to implement studies in order to understand the procrastinating behavior in the university setting.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between personality type and study satisfaction and academic achievement of medical students. The personality of the students was examined based on MBTI personality theory. According to MBTI theory, personality type consists of 4 dimensions, and each dimension has two contrasting preferences. These preferences are as follows: extraversion(E)-intraversion(I), sensing(S)-intuition(N), thinking(T)-feeling(F), and judging(J)-perceiving(P). For this study, 269 students were sampled from the first to forth year of medical school. MBTI test was administered to the students and information about their study satisfaction was collected. The results of this study were as followss: First, the result of MBTI test showed that most medical students are personality type ISTJ(22.4 %), followed by ESTJ (11.6%), ISTP (10.4%). Second, the relationship between study satisfaction and personalty indicator "E-I" and "J-P" was statistically significant. Also, the relationship between adaptation as a subscale of satisfaction and personality indicator "E-I" and "J-P" was statistically significant. The relationship between attitude and personality was except for the indicator "S-N", statistically significant. Finally the relationship between satisfaction and personality indicator "E-I", "S-N", J-P" was statistically significant. Third, the result of t-test showed that academic achievement was significantly associated with student's personality in the dimensions Thinking(T) and Feeling(F). Students with personal type Thinking(T) had higher academic achievement than students with personal type Feeling(F). These results imply that a diagnosis of personality can be used to develop programs for medical students which can help them to be satisfied with academic environment and therefore to enhance their academic achievement. As well, these results can be used to analyse the appropriate aptitude for medicine which is very important in the selection of medical students.