Manifestaciones y Capacidad de Afrontamiento del Estrés Académico en Estudiantes de la Facultad de Psicología y Terapia de la Comunicación Humana (FPYTCH) del Estado de Durango

Abstract

In higher education, students are susceptible to the manifestation of stress. Objectives: to determine the presence of academic stress in psychology students of the FPYTCH; Identify the main stressors in the participants of the psychology career of the FPYTCH. Methodology: This investigation was non-experimental, exploratory, observational, by survey, cross-sectional and descriptive, in a non-probabilistic sample obtained by accident and for convenience, after signing an informed consent. Procedure: 122 students participated in the semesters of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th grade, to whom the academic stress questionnaire was applied. For statistical processing the spss software version 20.0 was used. Contribution: The Cronbach Alpha of the analyzed data was 0.94. Of the 29 variables analyzed, only two showed that there is almost always academic stress which are: 1) teacher evaluations and 2) the type of work requested by teachers. Therefore, it is considered that there is little presence of variables with academic stress, and therefore it can be considered that students have a good capacity to face the academic environment.