Overload and desmotivation in academic life:

Meanings attributed to time pressure by students from the 7th to the 12th period of psychology in a public institution

Abstract

Training in Psychology permeates various ways in the experience of the teaching-learning process. One of the forms of stress experienced in college is time pressure, a common theme in the daily lives of students, but with limited discussions on the subject. The objective of this research was to understand the meaning attributed to time pressure in the academic life of students from the 7th to the 12th periods of a Psychology Course at a public institution in the light of Heidegger's phenomenology. It is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research in which the phenomenological research method in Psychology was used. Eighteen to twelfth semester students were considered participants. The research was carried out through an audio-recorded interview that started from a guiding question and presented consequences. At the end of the research, it was possible to elaborate six categories; ''And in my journey, the challenges: being-in-the-world as an academic in Psychology'', ''Time pressure and its consequences: feeling and resenting'',  and ''Time pressure''. It is concluded that pressure represents only a portion of the complexity of elements that involve training, but that in a way it represents a considerable impact on the quality of life of academics as well as on the quality of their training.