Estresores académicos percibidos por estudiantes universitarios de ciencias de la salud

Abstract

This study aimed to identify those situations within the academic context that are perceived as stress generators in a sample of university students of Health Sciences and the amount of their impact. We also analyzed the differences in the academic stressors perceived based on the variables of career and academic year. These were measured with the Academic Stress Questionnaire, which forms a part of the Academic Stress Questionnaire (ASQ). The results of this project show that Exams and Public Participation are, in this order, the academic stressors most perceived. These findings suggest that the situations that are most directly and clearly related with the evaluation are those that generate the most stress to the students. The result averages in the factors Student burden and Teacher methodological shortcomings are very close to the above findings. We can consider that these four factors share the fact that they are external and uncontrollable in regards to the previous ones. In addition, there are significant differences among students groups of students established based on the career they are studying in the stressors Student burden, Low valuation of study and learning contents and Low academic self-concept. Regarding the academic year factor, our results show that there are significant differences in the following 3 stressors: Lack of control about own academic achievement, Exams and Impossibility of participating in decisions about one's own academic work. In these cases, second year students show, on average, the highest scores.