Estudo correlacional entre o déficit de atenção e rendimento acadêmico

Abstract

The present study aimed to verify the presence of attention deficit in university students and to correlate it with academic performance. The present study is characterized as a descriptive, quantitative research. The sample consisted of 76 university students, the majority being female (75%) and only 25% male, aged between 18 and 53 years (M = 24.32, SD = 8.473), three Humanities area. The instruments of Attention Concentration (AC) and Socio-demographic Questionnaire were used. Considering the data collected, the following results were obtained: the percentage that indicated the attention of the subjects below the average were Lower 2.6% and Lower Medium 11.8%, in the average when compared with others of the same schooling, was 47 , 4%, the other participants were above average; it was possible to perceive that 56.6% of the sample population had CRA between 7 and 8 and 32.9% with CRA between 9 and 10; the correlation between these results was not significant, with the significance level 0.029, and the relation of the variables was negative -0.218, where it can be verified that there is a weak relation between them. Therefore, one can understand the result because there was no significant factorial correlation between the variables, where a large part of the study population was within this average in the results, so no relationship was found between attention deficit and academic performance.