Os níveis de stress dos alunos de licenciatura, da UCP – Viseu

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Bruno
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Lopes, Fábio, Neves, Mauro, Pereira, Paulo Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.7559/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2008.122

This work, conducted in the 2007/2008 school year, intends to examine the levels of stress in the academic community of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP) - Viseu, as well as the coping strategies developed to fight it, a theme that can contribute to the understanding of how students respond to changes at this stage of his life, full of new challenges and uncertainties, which may be the cause of imbalances and emotional exhaustion of students. Definitions of stress and coping strategies are presented, also addressing the changes in the transition to higher education and the tasks that need to overcome along the course. The methodological framework of the study is presented, with the characterization of the studied population, method of sample selection, objectives and hypothesis presentation and the information-gathering tool used. The analysis allows to determine the predominating stressors and coping strategies, as well as their relationship with the courses taken by students, being in the beginning or end of the course and the characterization variables sex, age and socio-economic level. Finally, the relationship between stress and related factors and coping and their strategies is determined.