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Autoperceção das soft e hard skills em estudantes universitários: O papel dos traços de personalidade e da área de curso
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As organizações acreditam que as hard e soft skills se devem articular de forma a que
se alcance um melhor desempenho. É importante perceber de que forma podemos antecipar as
skills que os indivíduos têm maior predisposição para desenvolver. O presente estudo tenta
compreender este tema através da autoperceção de soft e hard skills, dos traços de personalidade
e das áreas de estudo de estudantes universitários. As hipóteses propostas foram a existência de
uma associação entre os traços de personalidade e a autoperceção das skills e que a área do
curso tem um papel moderador nessa relação.
A amostra é composta por 302 estudantes a frequentar o ensino universitário. Os cursos
foram agrupados em ciências socias e humanas e Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics (STEM). Foi criada uma escala com base na literatura para averiguar a
autoperceção das skills, e utilizou-se a escala BFI-10 de Rammstedt e John (2007) para medir
os traços de personalidade.
Os resultados demonstram que existe uma relação significativa entre quatro traços
(extroversão, neuroticismo, agradabilidade e conscienciosidade) e a autoperceção de soft skills
e três traços (extroversão, abertura à experiência e conscienciosidade) e a autoperceção de hard
skills. Verificou-se que para os estudantes da área das ciências sociais e humanas quanto maior
for a extroversão mais elevada é a autoperceção de hard skills.
Os resultados sugerem que, no geral, os estudantes têm autoperceção tanto de soft como
de hard skills, o que supõe que existe consciencialização da importância do crescimento e
desenvolvimento de ambas as skills.
Organizations believe that hard and soft skills must be articulated in order to achieve a better performance. It is important to understand how to anticipate the skills that individuals are more predisposed to develop. The present study tries to comprehend this through soft and hard skills’ self-perceptions, personality traits and areas of study of university students. The hypotheses made were: the existence of a relationship between personality traits and skills’ self-perceptions and that the course area as a moderating role in that relationship. This study’s sample is 302 university students. The courses were grouped in human and social sciences and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). We created a scale based on the literature to measure skills’ self-perception, and used the BFI-10 from Rammstedt and John (2007) to measure personality traits. Data analysis shows a significant relationship between four traits (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness) and soft skills’ self-perception and between three traits (extraversion, openness to experience and conscientiousness) and hard skills’ selfperception. To human and social sciences’ students, higher levels of extraversion, more hard skills’ self-perception. The results suggest that, in general, students have self-perception of both soft and hard skills, which suggests that they are aware of the importance of growth and development of both skills.
Organizations believe that hard and soft skills must be articulated in order to achieve a better performance. It is important to understand how to anticipate the skills that individuals are more predisposed to develop. The present study tries to comprehend this through soft and hard skills’ self-perceptions, personality traits and areas of study of university students. The hypotheses made were: the existence of a relationship between personality traits and skills’ self-perceptions and that the course area as a moderating role in that relationship. This study’s sample is 302 university students. The courses were grouped in human and social sciences and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). We created a scale based on the literature to measure skills’ self-perception, and used the BFI-10 from Rammstedt and John (2007) to measure personality traits. Data analysis shows a significant relationship between four traits (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness) and soft skills’ self-perception and between three traits (extraversion, openness to experience and conscientiousness) and hard skills’ selfperception. To human and social sciences’ students, higher levels of extraversion, more hard skills’ self-perception. The results suggest that, in general, students have self-perception of both soft and hard skills, which suggests that they are aware of the importance of growth and development of both skills.
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Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada ao
ISPA – Instituto Universitário para obtenção de
grau de Mestre na especialidade de Psicologia
Social e das Organizações.
Keywords
Autoperceção Soft skills Hard skills Traços de personalidade STEM Ciências sociais e humanas Self-perception Personality traits Human and social sciences.