Research Article | Open Access
Reliability and Validity Analysis of the Academic Stress Inventory in University Students
Olga Lidia Solano Dávila Luis Alberto Núñez Lira Willy Valle Salvatierra Wilberto Fernando Rubio Cabrera Sergio Enrique Valle Ríos
Pages: 52-56
Abstract
Currently, the International Health Organizations consider stress a morbidity and
should be treated as a public health issue, even more so as a result of the health
pandemic experienced. The university student was no stranger to this, suffering the
so-called academic stress due to both academic and social factors. To determine the
level of this, the SISCO university stress inventory was used, whose purpose was to
identify attributes of stress that usually follow undergraduate and graduate students
in the course of their university education. It consists of 30 items divided into three
dimensions: stressful situations, symptoms (physical, psychological and behavioral
reactions) and coping strategies. The results indicated that this inventory has good
internal consistency in the total scale and in its dimensions. In terms of validity, the
AFE and AFC proved that there are three factors considered in the theoretical model:
symptoms, stressors and coping strategies, and the confirmatory analysis indicates
an adequate fit for the academic stress model.
Keywords
Stress, Behavior, Psychological Effects, Mental Health.