Characteristics of the students and supervisors’ interaction in stricto sensu postgraduate courses in Accounting Sciences

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Edleuza Paulina Loures da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Cunha, Jacqueline Veneroso Alves da, Barbosa Neto, João Estevão
• Tipo de documento: preprint
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: SciELO Preprints
• Texto Completo: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/preprint/view/2758
• topic: Relação de orientação; Pós-graduação; Ciências Contábeis; Students and supervisors’ interaction; Postgraduate studies; Accounting Sciences

This study aimed to identify the characteristics of the interpersonal relationships existing between supervisors and students in stricto sensu postgraduate courses in Accounting in Brazil, in the perception of students. The relevance of the research is based, mainly, on the importance of the relationship built between advisors and students during the master's or doctoral degree. The characteristics of this relationship can be decisive for the quality of the dissertation or thesis, as well as for the individual's professional training. The sample consisted of 309 stricto sensu graduate students in the accounting area, 65% of which correspond to academic master's students, 31.72% to academic doctorate students and 2.91% to professional master's students. Students' perceptions about the mentoring relationship were captured using the Questionnaire on Supervisor-doctoral Student Interaction adapted by Mainhard, Rijst, Tartwijk and Wubbel (2009), whose Cronbach's Alpha was 0.9424. From the descriptive analysis of the answers, it was found that the students, when thinking about and dealing with the mentoring relationship, prioritize aspects related to the figure of the mentor as a person and little detail about the characteristics of the guidance process and work development. This finding reiterates the conclusion that students indirectly choose their advisors and analyze them, adopting as a criterion the personality traits as more relevant to the detriment of technical training.