APOYO SOCIAL PERCIBIDO Y ESTRÉS ACADÉMICO EN ESTUDIANTES UNIVERSITARIOS

Abstract

Perceived social support is about the perception that the subject has about the support they receive from their social network, while academic stress is conceptualized as a series of processes of systemic origin, whether adaptive and psychological. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between perceived social support and academic stress in university students . The sample was made up of 140 students with an age range between 18 and 32 years old from the Faculty of Systems, Electronics and Industrial Engineering of a University in Ambato. The research had a quantitative approach, nonexperimental design, with cross-sectional and descriptive -correlational scope. To measure these variables, the MOS social support questionnaire developed by Sherbourne and Stewart (1991) and the SISCO academic stress inventory SV - 21 created by Arturo Barraza in 2018 were used. The results showed that there is no correlation between the dimensions of social support. perceived and academic stress, likewise, no significant differences were found between academic stress levels and gender. In conclusion, the lack of relationship between these two variables may be due to multifactorial causes, so that perceived social support did not perform its buffering function against stress.