Academic stress in Psychosocial Medicine students evaluated with the Barraza Macías academic stress inventory
Keywords:
stress, strategy, nervousness, worry, behaviorAbstract
Stress implies a normal situation, which, when exceeding a certain level, becomes an abnormal situation (distress) due to the surrender of control mechanisms. Academic activities are stress-generating (normal situation given in different grades) in our students. The objectives were, always in both sexes and in relation to stress, to differentiate the total scores obtained, to investigate the level of worry and nervousness, to investigate the frequency of physical, psychological and behavioral reactions, and to compare the frequency of use of coping strategies.
Descriptive study, cross-sectional design, survey type in the form of a self-administered questionnaire. Obtaining the sample: simple random sampling (n=80). Measurement instrument: Barraza Macías Academic Stress Inventory. Evaluated variables: academic stress by gender, level of worry or nervousness, frequency of physical, psychological, behavioral reactions and frequency of use of coping strategies, rated on a Likert scale: 1 Never, 2 Rarely, 3 Sometimes, 4 Almost always and 5 Always. The total score and that of each variable were divided into two ranges. Analysis methods: coding and tabulation of data with bivariate contingency tables indicating relative frequencies and percentages. α error at the significance level of p≤0.05. Analysis of differences in percentage distributions: Chi² test.
Total sample: ranges: 31-89: 24 (30%), 90-150: 56 (70%). By sex: range 31-89: men: 17 (46%), women: 18 (41.8%); range 90-150: men: 20 (54%), women: 25 (58.2%). In both cases non-significant differences. Level of worry or nervousness: range 1 to 3: men: 23 (62.2%), women: 5 (11.6%); rank 4 to 5: males: 14 (37.8%), females: 38 (88.4%). Significant differences. Frequency of physical, psychological and behavioral reactions: range 15-45: men: 26 (70.2%), women: 4 (9.3%); range 46-75: men: 11 (29.8%), women: 39 (90.7%). Significant differences. Frequency of use of coping strategies: range 6-18: males: 8 (21.6%), females: 7 (16.2%); range 19-30: men: 29 (78.4%), women: 36 (83.7%). Non-significant differences.
Women have a higher level of worry or nervousness. Physical, psychological, and behavioral reactions, jointly, are more frequent in women. The frequency of use of coping strategies is similar in both sexes.
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