Pressure on academic performance and negative affectivity in nursing graduate
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Objective: to analyze the pressure for academic performance and negative affectivity. Method: cross-sectional and correlational design. Sample of 115 undergraduate nursing students in 2022, using the DASS-21 scale and the elaboration of a psychometric measure to measure academic pressure. Data were analyzed in jamovi, v. 1.8, with uni, bi and multivariate statistical analysis. Results: the prevalence of "mild stress" was 7.82%, moderate was 4.34%, severe in 0.87% and extremely severe in 1.74%. For "mild anxiety", it was 5.17%, moderate in 2.58%, severe in 1.72% and extremely severe in 0.86%. For Depression, it was 5.30% for mild, 0.88% for moderate, 2.65% for severe and 1.77% for extremely severe. Regarding the academic pressure, the highest average was the Being hard on yourself, with 86.62, and the lowest average was 27.75, for the Competition with Classmates, the internal consistency scores of the academic pressure items were alpha 0.75 and omega 0.82. The highest correlation was 0.72, and 10 items remained after exploratory factor analysis. Conclusion: anxiety is relevant in the process of adaptation and academic performance, especially for women and nursing.
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