Assessment Of Stress, Attention And Memory In High School Students In Latacunga, Ecuador: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Autor: Milton Fabián Herrera Herrera, Diana Iris Rodríguez Pelarde, Diana Carolina Herrera Jara, Sergio Rodríguez Rodríguez, Teresa de Lourdes Jara Salguero, María Virginia Tamagno Conci, Yulianne Pérez Escalona, Daniuska Hechavarría Naranjo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1238817
Popis: —Stress is the side effect of development. Nowadays school going children also had stress and it’s after effects. So this research was carried out in order to evaluate indicators of stress level (stress test), attention (Toulouse-Pièron test), immediate memory (word list test) and working memory (reverse order digit test), to a group of 40 students of the school whose age was between 15 and 17 year. Survey done on first of April in the International Baccalaureate level of the Latacunga city, Cotopaxi province, Republic of Ecuador. The perceptual and attention testing Toluuse-Pièron for additions and omissions plus errors did not throw significant differences between gender; but they behaved over 20 % of the hits, which showed a lack of deep concentration and attention over time. The stress test showed that females were more stressed in relation to males; however, for the word test and the reverse-order digits, no significant differences between the genders were found. A nonlinear (polynomial) relationship was found between the stress of the students and the memory. So it can be concluded that females were significantly more stressed than males whereas regarding memory there was no significant difference in both the sexes. It was also revealed that there was no linear relation between stress and memory.
Databáze: OpenAIRE