Abstract

NOVAES MALAGRIS, Lucia Emmanoel et al. Levels of estresse and sociobiographic characteristics among graduate students. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2009, vol.15, n.2, pp. 184-203. ISSN 1677-1168.

The objective of this study was to investigate the estresse presence and level in graduate students from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and characterize the sample. We used the Lipp’s Estresse Symptoms Inventory for Adults and a sociobiographic questionnaire. The 140 participants were volunteer students from all University Schools. The participants’ average age was 30.3 ± 7,5, including 74 female and 66 male. We observed that 58.6% of the students were estresseed. The highest estresse level was observed in the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (82.4%), followed by the Schools of Technology (61%), Science and Culture (60%), Languages and Arts and Philosophy and Humanities (55%), Law and Economics and Health Sciences (50%). The estresse level found in the research is extremely worrying, once it can be related to specific demands from a graduate course. It is important to develop studies in order to identify specific estresseors.

Keywords : estresse; students; graduate.

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