Coping strategies on academic performance front of students

Abstract

University teaching has a number of satisfactions, experiences, anecdotes and questions facing the teaching and learning as students process itself. Precisely in this academic traffic has been observed as the young initiate and continue his studies with great desire to excel in a stage of human development that can bring those surprises and complacency in general. However, as we note in them for various reasons both emotional, physical and / or their own social or personal environment affect their academic performance origins. It is for this reason that a study was conducted to analyze and identify the various coping styles deal with complicated situations in the academic life of the college student. The work was performed using a descriptive design. We worked with a non-probability sample of one hundred participants (seventy-two students and twenty students who had repeated courses of science and letters interchangeably). Most of them were aged between 17 and 18 years (96%), as single whole, 93% born in Lima capital, studied only 83%, 98% came from private schools, and 71% lived with their parents. The “Adolescent Coping Scale” (ACS) Frydenberg, E and Lewis, R (1997) was used; revised and adapted by Canessa, Beatriz (Lima, 2000).
It was determined that most young people do not have a clear and precise coping against the disapproval of courses and strategies that all answers relate to trying to deal with them only sometimes. Similarly, the strategies used by the students to face the repetition of courses are: seeking social support, focus on solving problems, strive and succeed, worry, find friends, illusions, self-incrimination, reserving for it, look at the positive and look relaxing diversions. Similarly, when disapprove courses have difficulty coping in problem solving and in relation to other people who somehow could guide them in solving complex situations respectively. However, we have identified that young people manage a proper relationship with itself; they realize their problems but do not perform actions to overcome them.