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    Predictors of Performance and of Psychological Well-Being in Engineering Career Aspirants
    (2019) Iván Iraola-Real; Milagros Iraola-Real; William Iraola-Real; Edwin Iraola-Real; Felícita Nery Real-Torres; Beatriz Baylon
    Educational deficiencies in Peru generate that many adolescents who wish to study engineering in public universities have to study at pre-university centers, this being difficult and unsatisfactory. In this context, this study aimed to identify the predictors of academic performance and psychological well-being factors in aspiring students to engineering at a prestigious public university in Peru. The sample was of 157 students (120 men (76.4%) and 37 women (23.6%)) between 15 and 22 years of age (M <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">age</sub> = 17.65, SD = 1.31), between 6 months to 4 years of pre-university studies. The results show that the educational level of the mother predicts negatively the test anxiety. Studies' time and self-efficacy positively predict academic performance. In addition, time of studies and the test anxiety predict negatively to psychological well-being. Finally, the self-efficacy predicted positively to psychological well-being.
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    Why Do I Study the Nursing Career? The Importance of the Motivation and the Vocation
    (2019) Iván Iraola-Real; Milagros Iraola-Real; William Iraola-Real; Edwin Iraola-Real; Felícita Nery Real-Torres
    Analyze the predictive relationship between motivation, vocational interests and habits of studies in students of nursing of a private university in Lima, Peru is the objectives of this research. The study involved 125 nursing students (53 of the first grades/72 of past grades) selected by an intentional sampling. The results showed, controlled motivation predicts the study's habits significantly, the time's distribution and concentration habit's, in both groups of students; also controlled motivation predicts work's habits in students of past grades. And autonomous motivation predicts vocational interests, specifically in the personal attitudes toward the career in the first grades students. On the other hand, in students of past grades, vocational interests predict study habits and reading techniques. And finally, in the last grades students' personal attitudes toward career predict habits for work and reading techniques.