Abstract

SUAREZ, Oscar Jardey; HURTADO, Alejandro  and  LIZARAZO -OSORIO, Julio. Underlying Variables for Academic Stress and Student Motivation in Higher Education amid the Covid-19 Pandemic. Rev. Fac. Cienc. Tecnol. [online]. 2022, n.51, pp.37-56.  Epub Oct 15, 2022. ISSN 0121-3814.

The objectives of this research are to determine the variables that underlie academic stress and to establish how these predict "student motivation in the Remote Presence Mode (RPM)", in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic in students of a private university in Bogota Colombia. The 1996 Academic Stress Inventory (ASI) of Polo, Hernández and Pozo has been adapted with a category of its own from the MPR. The descriptors and the reliability index are analyzed, and the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method is used to determine the underlying variables. The linear regression model is run from the underlying variables to determine the prediction of student motivation in RPM. 255 students from 4 Faculties participated in the study. The results show that the asi has a reliability of 0.899, five underlying variables that explain 58.689 % of the variance. The constructed model predicts 34.3 % of the motivation of the students with the RPM. The study shows indications of the need to train the teacher in the technical, social, managerial, and pedagogical-didactic dimensions. On the other hand, the necessary, but not sufficient, condition of having technological resources to attend the rpm is clear. Finally, there is evidence that shows that the evaluation is at the level of other academic responsibilities.

Keywords : academic stress; higher education; covid-19; motivation; virtuality.

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