Educational stress: elaboration of ED-6 scale for its assessment

Authors

  • Pablo Gutiérrez-Santander
  • Santiago Morán-Suárez Colegio Santa María del Naranco
  • Inmaculada Sanz-Vázquez Universidad de Oviedo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/relieve.11.1.4196

Keywords:

Educational stress, educational discomfort, scale, evaluation

Abstract

Educational stress is a research topic that monopolizes a great number of studies. In the work that is presented here, the psychometric properties of the ED-6 scale are analyzed. This scale was elaborated ad hoc to measure the stress or educational discomfort for its use in a wider frame of research on this phenomenon. As one will be able to prove, the results show reliability and acceptable validity, being conformed by 77 items and 6 dimensions: Anxiety, Depression, Pressures, Beliefs, Lack of motivation and Bad confrontation. It is expected that its use in future research will be of great benefit.

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2005)

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