AUTOCONCEITO E DESEMPENHO ACADÊMICO EM ALUNOS DE PSICOLOGIA

The self-concept has been studied in the diverse areas of psychology in virtue of the importance that assumes in the understanding of the process of the human development. In view of the relevance of the self-concept in the life of an individual, the present work objectified to verify the existing relation between the self-concept and the academic performance in students of superior education. 142 students of second and the eighth semesters of the course of Psychology had been part of this study, with age between 17 and 58 years, of the daylights and nocturnal of a particular university of the Sao Paulo interior. The students who had signed the term of free and clarified assent had filled, in schedule of class previously yielded by the professor, a questionnaire of identification of the citizens and, after that, reduced scale of the self-concept - ERA. The main gotten results had evidenced the existence of pointers of correlation between the self-concept and the academic performance, however these results in do not allow them to conclude definitively how much to the existence of this correlation. Perhaps these results are decurrent of a type of evaluation that does not discriminate the pupils or it differentiates them very little

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