Introduction:

Academic stress is a problem that affects a significant number of university varying. There are different conditions that can generate therefore have developed numerous studies to identify potential academic stressors, not less important is to identify factors that may influence these feelings within these socio-educational and socio-demographic factors that may influence accentuating or attenuating these feelings are.

Aim:

To determine whether the educational level of the parents is associated with the perception of academic stressors in students of Physiotherapy.

Subjects and methods:

The sample included 151 students enrolled in Physiotherapy of University of Vigo. As socio variable used level study of grouping parents in primary, secondary and higher education and to measure academic stress student has used the scale of academic stressors stress questionnaire academic (CEA).

Results:

The examinations factor correlates with the level of education of both parents, but the academic level of mothers is shown as a determining factor in the perception of academic stressors, and that correlates with more than half of them, higher level education with a lower perceived academic stress.

Conclusions:

The educational level of the mother have influence on the perception of academic stress but nevertheless the educational level of the father is associate, in a more discreet way because it have influence in one of the nine factors analyzed.

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