Depressão e sua relação com satisfação acadêmica: construção de uma escala

Abstract

Depression has been the subject of many studies and specifically, nowadays, referred to as the disease of the century. The present study aimed to understand the correlation between depression and academic satisfaction; Develop a Depressive Symptomatic Tracing Scale (ERSD); and Check which symptoms are more frequent in the study population. The sample constituting the research was of 500 university students, comprising between 18 and 50 years old (M =5 8,05; DP = 17,33), of courses in the areas of Humanities, Health and Exact. The results of the construction of the Depressive Symptomatological Screening Scale, indicated a unifactory solution with satisfactory parameters of the Kaiser- Meyer – Olkin (KMO) = 0,94 and the sphericity test of Bartlett = 5369, 48 (231); p= 0,001, which aims to indicate the adequacy of the data to perform the factor analysis. With total variance explained= 39,7%, of 22 items, own value = 9,29 and factorial loads varying between 0,37 to 0,82, whit Alpha de Cronbach presenting value of (α= 0,93). The correlation between the two scales was significant with a high index ranging from -,353** to ,657**, which expressly explains that the more people feel depressed, the less satisfaction they find in the academic context. Through the analysis of the results, we can conclude that in the study population, the data demonstrate a significant correlation, since the presence of symptoms directly affects the satisfaction in the studies and compromises their entire environment, hindering the success in the personal and professional life of the individual.