Percepciones de los mexicanos sobre el estudiante universitario promedio: diferencias regionales13

Resumen

The purpose of the present study is to provide information regarding the citizens of Mexico’s perceptions about the average university student. A descriptive, non-experimental quantitative research method was employed, with a non-probabilistic intentional sample of 460 data from three regions of Mexico: the north (n= 169), center (n= 128) and south (n= 163). The measurement instrument was constructed using semantic networks methodology, the participants were presented with a list of 50 descriptive qualities, 25 of which were categorized as positive and 25 as negative. They were then asked to select five qualities in order of relevance, which they deemed to be more representative of an average Mexican university student. Additionally, the study provides sociodemographic data of the participants (age, school level, residing city, occupation and gender), as well as the semantic weight of the principal characteristics that represent the average Mexican university student. This data revealed similarities when regions of Mexico were compared. The data provide continuity to the author’s efforts to define how Mexicans could be perceived in different contexts including scholars, where empirical evidence is not abundant. This information may provide to be a valuable as resource, input, insight and background for various studies from in different fields of knowledge centered around Mexican psychology.