Efeito da ansiedade social no desempenho acadêmico com discentes do curso de Gestão Pública da Unipampa

Abstract

The objective of this study is to understand the level of social anxiety, also known as social phobia, and its effects on the academic performance of students on the Public Management course at UNIPAMPA. To this end, quantitative and qualitative research was carried out to cover different data about the phenomenon. From this, the index of a probabilistic sample of 125 students of the Course was evaluated, using the Liebowitz Scale for Social Anxiety. Furthermore, the qualitative stage included eight interviews between students identified with some level of social phobia. The results indicate that 48% of the course's students have social phobia to some degree, 24% being medium or moderate, 14% severe and 10% very severe, representing a very high percentage of students with social phobia. Furthermore, the effects caused on academic performance are: a) difficulty in performing presentations in the classroom b) participation in seminars due to exposure and finally c) dissatisfaction due to various situations in which social anxiety prevailed and interfered with the academic performance of students. students of the Public Management Course. Thus, the results reveal that anxiety in the academic environment becomes a problem that can significantly affect the academic performance of students. The University has a very important role in this case, but it is not acting systematically to provide support to these 60 (sixty) students on the Public Management course who have social phobia.