Relationship between self-efficacy, self-esteem, assertiveness, and academic performance, in students who started in 2010, the career of Occupational Therapy.

Abstract

This study described the existent relationship between self-efficacy, self-esteem and assertiveness, and between these three variables and academic performance, in 43 students of both sexes, who started in 2010, the career of Occupational Therapy at the University San Sebastian, in Santiago de Chile. As a quantitative research, with a non-experimental and correlational design, it had the longing to establish relations between variables in study, but without determining causality between them. To this end, the procedures used were the evaluation with three self-administrated tests, as data collection instruments, that specifically measured levels of self-esteem, assertiveness and self-efficacy (Coopersmith self-esteem inventory, Rathus assertiveness scale and Scale of generalized self-efficacy); with its subsequent tabulation. Besides, was considered the score average obtained by these students in the first year of their career. The analysis of these results showed that there is a significant correlation between the variables self-esteem, assertiveness and self-efficacy; but not as well between these and academic performance. Although, was verified a relation between these variables but not the extent of it. It is hypothesized about the possible explanations for these results, and suggestions are provided.