Academic stress in Engineering students studying Physics: exploratory analysis

This document describes the adaptation, validation and application of the ASI Academic Stress Inventory directed to engineering students who study physics. The initial inventory takes two categories: the first considers Activities or Situations that Generate Stress ASGS, the second refers to the Responses to Stress RS. The adaptation incorporated, a priori, a third category referred to Activities of Epistemological Origin AEO, proper to the teaching of physics. The methodology is based on reliability indicators and uses exploratory analysis through the principal components method. The results show an IEA with 28 items with a global alpha of 0.924, a alpha for the ASGS category of 0.838, for RS 0.908 and AEO of 0.777. The exploratory analysis indicates the existence of six variables (physiological response to stress, contextual and technological conditions, epistemological mediation activities of the physics class, personal - contextual conditions, affective responses to stress and intrinsic motivation to physics class) that interpret 63.393% of the variance.