Aptitude level, values and school performance in University students

Abstract

The presente investigation was carried out at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, with young people from the 2014-2019 generation of the psychology career (Campus Zacatecas), the objective of this study is to identify if there is a correlation between the level of aptitude, of the values (social, theoretical, aesthetic, economic, political and religious), the income profile and high academic performance at the end of the degree, in university estudents. It was carried out under a quiantitative approach, with a correlational scope. The type of design is non-experiemental-transactional, since the was no manipulation of the variables and the information was collected in a single moment. The sample was no problabilistic, for convenience, it consisted of 89 women and 17 men. The analysis was performed through the statistical package SPSS, obtaining the parametric test (chi2). Regarding the findings found, it was identified that the values variable, especially in the theoretical and social values, considered in the income profile of said generation, is not a predictor of high school performance at the end of the psychology degree, as well as at the education level, fitnees no significant correlation was found.