La deserción universitaria alcanza un 30%, lo que puede deberse a que los estudiantes tienen dificultades para integrar su identidad con aspectos de su profesión. Por lo tanto, el objetivo de esta investigación fue describir el desarrollo de la identidad profesional en estudiantes que han cambiado de carrera en una universidad privada. Para ello, se realizó un estudio cualitativo, de alcance exploratorio, con enfoque fenomenológico, entre los años 2019 y 2021. Se utilizó la entrevista a profundidad como método de recolección de información, que fue aplicada a una muestra constituida por 9 estudiantes universitarios, de entre 22 y 27 años y los datos se analizaron por medio del análisis temático. Los resultados se organizan a partir de las siguientes categorías: integriación de la profesión a la identidad, imagen profesional, experiencias significativas, congruencia percibida con la profesión e incidente crítico. Estos indican que en la carrera previa los estudiantes no logran identificarse del todo con su profesión, por lo que cambian de carrera. A partir de ello, se observa una mayor identificación con la carrera actual, que se da a partir de experiencias que le permiten al estudiante demostrar sus capacidades e integrar aspectos de la profesión a su identidad. Se concluye que los estudiantes que cambian de carrera desarrollan su identidad profesional sobre la base de una fuerte identificación con la segunda carrera. Por ello, se recomienda implementar estrategias que permitan abordar el desarrollo de la identidad profesional en los estudiantes, así como continuar estudiando ese fenómeno. / University dropout reaches 30%, which may be because students have difficulty integrating their identity with aspects of their profession. Therefore, the objective of this research was to describe the professional identity development in students who have changed careers at a private university. For this, a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach and exploratory scope was carried out between 2019 and 2021. The data was collected with an in-depth interview, which was applied to a sample of 9 students from a private university, between 22 and 27 years old, and the data was then analyzed using thematic analysis. The results are organized according to the following categories: integration of the profession to identity, professional image, significant experiences, perceived congruence with the profession and critical incident. These indicate that in the previous career, students couldn’t fully identify with their profession, which resulted in a career change. After this, a greater identification with the current profession is observed, based on experiences that allow students to show their capacities and integrate aspects of the profession to their identities. In conclusion, students who change careers develop their professional identity based on a strong identification with the second career. Therefore, it is recommended to implement strategies that address professional identity development in students, and to continue studying this phenomenon. / Tesis

El presente documento busca demostrar la viabilidad de un nuevo servicio, el cual se tiene intención de introducir al mercado nacional. Tanto la compañía como el servicio comparten el nombre de Twenty, el cual se basa en una academia virtual de nivel de educación superior para apoyar a los estudiantes con respecto a ciertas materias o temas que son considerados como dificultosos de aprender en la universidad. Este concepto de negocio fue planteado y validado mediante profundas investigaciones y una serie de experimentos para tener como resultado un servicio que satisfaga las necesidades de nuestro público: una academia virtual de apoyo a los universitarios. Posterior a dichas investigaciones, se pudo concluir que nuestro público objetivo se componía de estudiantes universitarios, de 18 a 24 años, que deseen reforzar sus conocimientos en los cursos que no han conseguido entender completamente. La falta de tiempo, preparación o entendimiento de los cursos fue identificada como la causa principal. ​En conclusión, luego de haber realizado el lanzamiento de nuestro producto en el mercado, se obtuvieron diferentes críticas constructivas con respecto al servicio que se ofrece, con los cuales pudimos realizar mejoras continuas a Twenty. Gracias a ello, se logrará alcanzar el propósito de la organización: Crear una alternativa donde los estudiantes no solo puedan tomar clases, sino también puedan comprender mejor las más difíciles y utilizar los conocimientos adquiridos en su futuro profesional. / The current document contains and proves the viability of a new service, which intends to be introduced in the national market. Both the company and the brand are called Twenty, which is based on a virtual academy for university level students to post-graduation students about difficult courses or subjects in college. The business concept was raised and validated through deep research and a series of experiments that resulted in a service which satisfies the needs of our target: a virtual academy which support university students from between 18 to 24 years old who wish to reinforce their knowledge of the courses that they haven’t managed to understand completely in their respective courses. The lack of time, preparation and understanding of the courses were identified as the main cause. In conclusion, after launching the product in the market, we received some constructive criticism, and we have improved Twenty greatly. Thanks to that, we’ve achieved the primary purpose of the organization: Create an alternative option where students can not only take classes but to better understand the most difficult ones and use the knowledge they gain in their professional futures. / Trabajo de investigación

The main goal of this thesis is to determine university students’ attitudes towards ethics of advertising in the Czech Republic. In order to attain this goal, an empiric survey will be conducted among students by means of questionnaire inquiring. The theoretic part of the thesis deals generally with the concepts of ethics and advertising and their position and importance in the Czech Republic, the following part then provides examples of unethical advertisements from the Czech and foreign practices. The result of inquiring will be the establishment of the rate of tolerance or non-tolerance of respondents towards ethics of advertising in the Czech Republic and their subsequent formulation in the form of recommendations for involved groups. The thesis and its results will be submitted to the advertising agency and graphical studio GAD STUDIO s.r.o. with its registered seat in Brno. Its results will also be provided as feedback to the Czech Advertising Standards Council.

PhD (English) / Department of English / Language, in general, has always been evolving and dynamic; the same can be said of the English language. Spontaneously, but not unexpected though, since the beginning of this 21st century which saw the introduction of the internet, there have been noteworthy manifestations in the structure and use of varied forms of the English language on social media. This study aimed at exploring, describing and explaining the linguistic features associated with the new communicative order – social media – and their communicative functions, vis-à-vis their impact on Ghanaian university students’ acquisition of academic literacy. To do this, the study adopted a qualitative method and an ethnographic approach in understanding the netnographic realities on social media. In addition, the sociocultural theory and the theory of error analysis served as the philosophical underpinnings which guided the research. Participants of the study (largely undergraduate students) were drawn from two universities in Ghana – the University of Ghana, and Valley View University. The total sample size was one hundred and eighty eight (188). It was found that frequent and prolonged use of social media discourse does impact negatively on the academic literacy of students. The findings also indicate that social media use overtime becomes addictive and this directly results in limited time span and low attention span of students. Again, the study found that over engagement on social media discourse leads to a general breakdown in both sentence and discourse structure of academic writing resulting into uncontrolled deviant spellings, omission and misuse of punctuation marks and capitalisation, as well as a high level of colloquialism. Despite these negative influences, it was found that there are some positive potentials of social media that can be harnessed to support academic literacy. The study, thus, recommends that the affordances of social media communication should be retooled to support the teaching and learning of academic literacy.

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Thesis (M. A. (Clinical Psychology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2019 / The study explored the stress levels and alcohol use amongst first entering students at the University of Limpopo. There are various reasons that students’ use and abuse alcohol for instance, academic workload, peer pressure, negative life events and boredom. In this study a cross-sectional survey design was used with a random sample of 217 first year psychology students. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), which measures individual stress and the Alcohol Use Identification Disorder Test (Audit), which measures alcohol use were used. Descriptive statistics, the chi-square test and an independent t-test were used to analyse data. Findings revealed that the majority of students drink alcohol but only a few drink to excess. Stress was reported mostly in the low to moderate range. However, female students did report significantly more stress than males in the sample. Some findings, although not significant, were problematic as for instance, a portion of students stated they could not remember what they were doing the night before after drinking and one female student was found to be dependent on alcohol. The Self-Medication Model (SMM) posits that people in a group are likely to selfmedicate if certain conditions are met in order to avoid stress, this appears to be the case in this study. It was recommended that a larger study be undertaken with a qualitative component to ascertain reasons why students are drinking alcohol in ever increasing numbers. It was also recommended that the institution run programmes related to the dangers of alcohol use and about stress and its consequences.

The main topic of this diploma thesis is comparison of two different methods of research. The first method is diary and the second method is online community. The subject of research in which these methods are compared with each other is the drinking regime of university students, more precisely the situation in which different drinks are consumed by university students. A total of twenty university students were involved in the research that is of a qualitative nature, with ten students in one research method. For one week, the students recorded not only all the drinks they drank per week, but also the circumstances of consuming these beverages, such as time of consumption, place, reasons for consumption etc. The diploma thesis outlines the differences between these research methods in terms of research results, frequency and quantity of information obtained, preparation and implementation of the methods, analysis of acquired data, as well as the perception of these methods by the respondents themselves. The resulting data analysis presents the benefits and limits of each of the selected methods in the situational research of the drinking regime and also suggests possible implications for further research.

El COVID – 19 ha perjudicado la salud mental de las personas a nivel mundial. En el Perú, un ámbito gravemente afectado por la pandemia es el sector educativo. Por esa razón, el objetivo del presente estudio fue determinar la relación entre ansiedad por Covid - 19 y salud mental. Asimismo, tiene como objetivos específicos: Comparar la ansiedad por Covid - 19 y salud mental en función a variables sociodemográficas: edad, sexo, convivencia familiar, situación laboral, diagnóstico de COVID-19 en sus familiares, amigos y en ellos mismos, diagnóstico y tratamiento contra la ansiedad, y, tiempo pensando, viendo o escuchando información sobre el COVID-19. Los participantes fueron 356 estudiantes universitarios (227 mujeres y 129 hombres, Medad = 22.36 años, DE = 2.46) a quienes se les aplicó el Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) en español y el Mental Health Inventory-5 ((MHI) a fines de Mayo e inicios de Junio de 2020 mediante un muestreo no probabilístico. Los resultados muestran que existe una correlación negativa y estadísticamente significativa entre la ansiedad por COVID – 19 y la salud mental (r = -,544; p ≤ 0.01). Asimismo, respecto a las comparaciones realizadas se evidencian diferencias estadísticamente significativas en función a las variables sociodemográficas previamente mencionadas. El estudio confirma que a mayor ansiedad por COVID – 19 menor salud mental en una muestra de estudiantes universitarios peruanos. / COVID - 19 has harmed people's mental health worldwide. In Perú, it has also affected severely all levels of the education system. For this reason, the objective of the present study is to determine the relationship between anxiety by Covid - 19 and mental health. It also has the following specific objectives: Compare the anxiety by Covid - 19 and mental health according to sociodemographic variables: age, sex, family life, work status, diagnosis of COVID – 19 in their family, friends and themselves, diagnosis and treatment against anxiety, and, time thinking, watching or listening to information about Covid-19. The participants were 356 university students (227 women and 129 men, average age = 22.36 years, Standard Deviation = 2.46) To whom it was applied the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in Spanish and the Mental Health Inventory-5 (MHI) late May and early June 2020 through non-probability sampling. The study confirms that there is a statistically significant correlation between anxiety by Covid – 19 and mental health (r = -, 544; p ≤ 0.01). Also, regarding the comparisons made statistically significant differences are evidenced according to the variables sociodemographic previously mentioned. The study confirms that the more anxiety by Covid - 19 the lower mental health in a sample of Peruvians university students. / Tesis

Objetivo: Comparar hábitos de higiene bucal, visitas al dentista y hábitos dietéticos entre alumnos de odontología y los de ingeniería de gestión minera en una universidad peruana privada en el año 2020. Materiales y métodos: Estudio observacional, descriptivo y transversal, se obtuvo una muestra conformada por 169 alumnos, 112 de odontología y 57 de ingeniería de gestión minera de 18 a 35 años. Se utilizó un cuestionario virtual de 37 ítems, para la recolección de datos. Se utilizó la prueba de Chi cuadrado y prueba exacta de Fisher para la comparación entre las variables independientes y covariables con la variable principal. Resultados: Se encontraron diferencias en 16 de 33 hábitos de salud oral. El 28% de los alumnos de Ingeniería de Gestión Minera no van al dentista, mientras que solo el 1.8% en Odontología. Además, se halló que la mayoría de los estudiantes de Odontología indicaron haber sido instruidos por un dentista en la enseñanza del cepillado dental (55.4%), hilo dental (88.4%) y tabletas reveladoras (93.8%), mientras que la mayoría de los estudiantes de Ingeniería de Gestión Minera (77.2%, 52.9% y 100% respectivamente) indicaron haber sido instruidos por un familiar. Solo el 3.5% de los de Ingeniería de Gestión Minera tuvo conocimiento respecto a las tabletas reveladoras, a diferencia de 97.3% en el grupo de Odontología. Conclusiones: Se halló diferencias entre los hábitos de higiene bucal, visitas al dentista y hábitos dietéticos analizados en este estudio entre los alumnos de Odontología y los de Ingeniería de Gestión Minera. / Objective: To compare oral hygiene habits, visits to the dentist and dietary habits between dental students and mining management engineering students at a private Peruvian university in the year 2020. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional and descriptive study, a sample of 169 students was obtained, 112 dental students and 57 mining management engineering students between 18 and 35 years of age. A virtual questionnaire of 37 items was used for data collection. The Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test were used to compare the independent variables and co-variables with the main variable. Results: Differences were found in 16 out of 33 oral health habits. Twenty-eight percent of the students in Mining Management Engineering do not go to the dentist, while only 1.8% in Dentistry. In addition, it was found that the majority of Dentistry students indicated having been instructed by a dentist in the teaching of tooth brushing (55.4%), dental floss (88.4%) and disclosing tablets (93.8%), while the majority of Mining Management Engineering students (77.2%, 52.9% and 100% respectively) indicated having been instructed by a family member. Only 3.5% of those in Mining Management Engineering had knowledge regarding the disclosing tablets, as opposed to 97.3% in the Dentistry group. Conclusions: Differences were found between the oral hygiene habits, dental visits and dietary habits analyzed in this study between the students of Dentistry and those of Mining Management Engineering. / Tesis

Background: Physical activity and perceived stress affect college- and university students health.  Aim: The aim is to study the association between physical activity and perceived stress among college- and university students in Sweden, and to investigate whether gender, age, and BMI are confounding factors regarding the association between physical activity and perceived stress.   Method: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted among the study population students. The analytical approaches chosen were descriptive analysis, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression. Results: According to the correlation analysis, there was a small negative significant association between physical activity and perceived stress. According to the regression analysis, there was a small negative significant association between physical activity and perceived stress, which remained after considering gender, age, and BMI. Discussion: The association between high physical activity and low perceived stress can be explained by the protective impact physical activity has on health. Conclusions: There was an association between physical activity and perceived stress among college- and university students. The association between physical activity and perceived stress among college- and university students remained after controlling for gender, age, and BMI.