Rodríguez CML

Language: Spanish
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Page: 553-574
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ABSTRACT

Stress is a very important matter in psychology for its consequences on health. This phenomenon is broadly reported by college students. The present study is based on an interbehavioral approach, so it establishes that there is a difference between contingences that objectively produce stress reactions and contingences that include goal criteria that correspond to capacity or competence. Competences have an affective dimension that could include adverse biological reactions, but this doesn’t mean stress from functional criteria. On this basis the purpose of this study was to evaluate academic functional competences in college students such as explore differences between students with and without some chronic diseases, between medicine and psychology students, and gender differences. To reach this purpose a specifically designed instrument was applied to 450 medicine and psychology students of several universities. It was found that more than the half of this sample reported to have a chronic disease. Participants were not totally competent for the situations presented on the instrument and they were differences between students with and without diseases. Implications of these findings are discussed.