Revisión Sistemática de la Habilidad de Autocontrol del Estudiante y su Rendimiento Académico en la Vida Universitaria

Abstract

The present work had three objectives: (1) to identify the research designs most used in studies on the relationship between self-control and academic performance in university students, (2) to present the conceptualizations of self-control and academic performance in those studies and (3) to identify the degree of association between these variables. A systematic review of the literature was performed by reviewing the databases: Web of Science, Scopus, Scielo and Eric, with the descriptors "university students, self-control and academic performance". A total of 173 articles were found, articles that show that the predictiveexplanatory research designs are the most used for the study of the relationship between self-control and academic performance. The work shows that there is a direct relationship between self-control and academic performance, observable when objective measures are used to study these variables.