habilidades comunicativas y sociales en estudiantes universitarios del sureste de México: Communicative and social skills in university students from southeastern Mexico

Self-regulation is an essential competence that allows students to actively manage their learning (Theobald, 2021) as well as communicative and social skills, the lack of development of which can affect students’ academic and personal performance. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze the influence of the development of communicative and social skills on the academic self-regulation of university students in the southeast zone of Mexico. The present study has a quantitative approach, with a non-experimental, cross-sectional design and comparative-causal scope. A survey was applied to 260 Psychology, Law, and Engineering students from the Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Mexico. The RELEP (2024) survey was used as the instrument. University students stand out in oratory skills, while they present weaknesses in writing, especially among men. The integral development of communicative and social skills is key to academic self-regulation, with oratory being the dimension of greatest impact; the model explains at least 41% of its variance. In this way, the positive influence of communicative skills on self-regulation is confirmed.