Mistreatment of the thesis adviser in a Peruvian pedagogical higher education institution: An exploratory study.

The objective of this research was to analyze the perception of mistreatment of undergraduate thesis advisers from a Peruvian pedagogical higher education institution. The approach was quantitative, the design was non-experimental and the type was descriptive transectional. The sample consisted of 102 thesis students to whom the Thesis Advisor Mistreatment Scale was applied, an instrument with adequate metric properties (validity based on content and reliability). According to the perception of the students, 44.1% consider that the abuse occurs at a moderate level, 30.4% indicate that it occurs at a low level and 25.4% indicate that it occurs at a moderate level. high level. Likewise, it was determined that the advisers were the ones who showed the most inappropriate treatment, characterized mainly by the fact that they did not allow them to contradict them, they underestimated the ideas of their advisees and when they tried to communicate with them, they took a long time to respond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]