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GODINEZ ALARCON, Guadalupe; REYES ANORVE, Joaquín; GARCIA SANCHEZ, María del Rocío  e  ANTUNEZ SALGADO, Timoteo. Psychosocial factors as impact on poor school performance of the students of the Autonomous University of Guerrero. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2016, vol.7, n.13, pp.107-125. ISSN 2007-7467.

With the objective of analyzing the psychosocial conducts that cause the low school performance of psychology, law, sociology, economics and nursing 2. A study was made to the learners of higher education of the Autonomous University of Guerrero (UAGro by its name in Spanish). This applied a questionnaire mainly to pupils of the sixth semester of the five Bachelor's degree of the UAGro. Those results allowed discover that the main factors that have greater incidence in the low school performance are psychological and economic, while those factors that less affect on the school problematic are bullying, lack of family and school support. With base in the results obtained is suggests to the managers of the involved schools in the study, authorize a program that includes a series of actions aimed to suppress or reduce the effects of the factors responsible of the low school performance, such as discouragement, student indifference and family economy. Such a program must be designed and implemented by staff specialized in strategies of motivation and interest for learning.

Palavras-chave : psychosocial factors; low school performance; discouragement; indifference.