Preditores de estresse em adolescentes que se preparam para o Enem

Abstract

It is indisputable that the students of today are more pressured to make a decision about the professional choice and the beginning of the planning of their career, however, these pressures allied as transformations of the adolescence that can contribute to an increase in the level of stress of the adolescents. With the objective of quantifying the level of stress in teenagers from Anápolis, which prepares for the Enemy and investigating many factors associated with student stress, in a sample of 40 students from the private university entrance exam course and 60 students from the 3rd grade high school from private and public schools. The instruments used were: a sociodemographic questionnaire, a questionnaire about future expectations and a Stress Scale for Adolescents (ESA). The results obtained indicate that the 100 participants in the research, 66 of them with a history of stress, with a greater number of women being 69.7%, predominate in the alert phase and boys in the resistance phase, both genders (53%) with psychological symptoms, anxiety with ENEM of p<0.001 with stress-related variables such as father and mother's education level p <0.0114 and p <0.0118 respectively and with future expectations of "being healthy most of time "(P <0.0029). Conclude that in both genders or stress if detected and that parents' education, future expectations and anxiety with ENEM are factors that increase the level of stress in adolescents, or may potentially the risks of stress disorders