Abstract

ALVAREZ-SILVA, Luis Antonio; GALLEGOS-LUNA, Roberto Medardo  and  HERRERA-LOPEZ, Pablo Samuel. Academic stress in Higher Technology students. Universitas [online]. 2018, n.28, pp.193-209. ISSN 1390-8634.

The main objective of this research was to identify the level of academic stress to students of Higher Technology in Finance of a public higher education institution of the city of Guayaquil-Ecuador. The research design was non-experimental cross-sectional, with a non-probabilistic sample for convenience of 210 students, who have a stay in the institution greater than six months. The process of authorizing, surveying and analyzing information was carried out in the third quarter of 2017. The tool used was the SISCO Academic Stress Inventory designed by Dr. Barraza Macías Arturo of the Universidad Pedagógica de Durango in Mexico. In this investigation, the instrument obtained a high level of reliability with a score of 0.894 according to Cronbach’s Alpha. In conclusion, academic stress is present in the middle level, with the demands of the environment such as overload, the major triggers of psychological reactions.

Keywords : Stress; academic stress; education; technology; Psychology.

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