Abstract
Background:Student’s performance comes from the engagement they have with the academic activities of their institution. This conviction is determined by multiple factors both internal and external. Student´s engagement is a key factor in academic performance at the university.Objective:The aim of this study of this study was to find the relationship between the factors of emotional intelligence, orientation to happiness and positive social relationships within the school with the engagement of university students in a population of Mexico.Method:A stratified probabilistic sampling of students from a public higher education institution in the city of Guaymas, Sonora, was conducted. A total of 226 students answered the self-report, 52% were women, and 48% were men. A model of structural equations was performed to evaluate the relationships between the studied factors.Results:The results show that positive factors, both social (relationships with teachers and classmates) and personal (emotional intelligence and orientation to happiness), maintain a direct and significant relationship with the university student’s engagement.Conclusion:To improve the student’s engagement in university activities is necessary to promote personal issues such as emotional intelligence and orientation to happiness. It is also important to foster good social relationships with teachers and classmates.
Highlights
The academic performance of university students is a quality of higher education institutions determinant [1], which is why this factor is found in numerous investigations that focus on discovering the variables related to this performance to understand and encourage better results in students, especially university students.1874-3501/18 2018 Bentham OpenPositive Psychosocial FactorsThe Open Psychology Journal, 2018, Volume 11 293The concern to study the academic performance in Mexico comes from the educational reports whose results have been little encouraging
The means of the 3 types of engagement show similar values at a medium-high level with means that ranged between 2.59 and 2.92; regarding personal factors, students present values that indicate acceptable levels of emotional intelligence and orientation to happiness; in interpersonal relationships better values were obtained in the teacher-student interaction scale than in the relationship between peers
Gristy [50] suggest the importance of peer relationships within the school context, this study proves that personal factors are more important
Summary
The academic performance of university students is a quality of higher education institutions determinant [1], which is why this factor is found in numerous investigations that focus on discovering the variables related to this performance to understand and encourage better results in students, especially university students.1874-3501/18 2018 Bentham OpenPositive Psychosocial FactorsThe Open Psychology Journal , 2018, Volume 11 293The concern to study the academic performance in Mexico comes from the educational reports whose results have been little encouraging. The schooling average in our country is freshman year of junior high school and in Sonora people study only about ten years. This agree that there are a few people who start their higher education, and from that small population, 15% are defected in the first year [2]. Student’s performance comes from the engagement they have with the academic activities of their institution. This conviction is determined by multiple factors both internal and external. Students engagement is a key factor in academic performance at the university
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