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RIDE. Revista Iberoamericana para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Educativo
versión On-line ISSN 2007-7467
Resumen
HERNANDEZ RUEDA, Karen. Comparison of stress level of first semester and higher semesters students. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2024, vol.15, n.29, e700. Epub 31-Dic-2024. ISSN 2007-7467. https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v15i29.2024.
Stress is one of the mental health diseases that has been investigated lately due to COVID-19 confinement and its consequences. Researchers from both the educational system and the health system have approached it with different approaches and have found various reasons for its origin among young people aged 18 to 25 years, as well as emphasizing that, compared to other periods of analysis, it has increased. The objective of this work was to determine the level of stress present in first year students and subsequent semesters to identify if there are differences, reasons why this occurs, and seek alternatives to counteract them. The methodology used is of an exploratory type through a survey applied at the end of the 2022A cycle and with the use of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) with 10 items to determine the level of stress in university students through a quantitative, descriptive, and relational study in a sample of 72 students (37 of first semester and 35 of higher semesters). This scale was chosen because it has good internal consistency and is one of the most widely used and best known internationally. The survey data were processed with Excel and the results show that between 67.56 and 58.82% of the students present medium stress for first semester, and 13.51 and 14.71% have high stress, respectively. The scale presents a good internal consistency with an Alpha Cronbach coefficient of 0.7 and 0.82 for first and higher semesters, respectively. One of the conclusions is that the medium stress level is present mostly in both first semester and higher semesters, so strategies should be proposed, such as stress management and time management workshops, to deal with stress and prevent the risk of dropping out, poor performance, among others.
Palabras llave : stress diagnosis; academic stress; COVID-19; psychological care; perceived stress scale.