Controle percebido, desempenho acadêmico e racionalidadeum estudo à luz da teoria da perspectiva com estudantes de Ciências Contábeis na UFRN

Resumo

This study has as objective to identify what influences academic performance, perceived control and rational decisions, from the perspective of the theory of perspective, keep each other in a sample of undergraduate students in Accounting in Natal – RN. The research contributes to investigate the relationship of the triad “control, rationality and academic performance”, examining whether the sample has higher academic performance tends to be more rational, and if perceived control is present in the process. Such relationship involves choices arising from financial aspects, guided by the theory of perspective (KAHNEMAN; TVERSKY, 1979). The research is characterized as descriptive and exploratory, as procedure a survey was used. A theoretical model from which it is formed, in order to compare with the empirical model, the technique Stuctural Equation Modelling (SEM) to relate cause and effect of the investigated variables (perceived control, rationality and academic performance) was used. Findings indicated that academic performance was identified as an axiom in order to train more professionals in the rational market, since rational presented a starting point of great significance to explain this relationship. In this sense, the results point to the proxy rationality and control as a present competences in vocational training. In the academic environment, this relationship promote the generation of cognitive shifts in student perception and decision making student already in the labor market.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Outro

Ano

2014

Instituição

Centro de Estudos em Finanças (GVcef)

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/18835

Temas

Economia

Palavras-chave

Perceived controlRationalityAcademic performanceControle percebidoRacionalidadeDesempenho acadêmicoEconomiaProcesso decisórioEstudantes universitários - Natal (RN)Finanças - Aspectos psicológicos