Objective:

Perform the psychometric validation of the Inventory of Stressor Institutional Characteristics.

Method:

Instrumental study developed through the application of the Inventory of Stressor Institutional Characteristics to 300 students of the Pedagogical University of Durango, Durango, Mexico; of these students 32% are male and 68% female, the minimum age is 19 years and the maximum of 67, with the average being 29 years of age, and 75% were studying at the time the degree and the remaining 25% the masters or doctorate.

Results:

A short version of the inventory was built, which obtained a reliability level of .71 in Cronbach's alpha; in the analysis of internal consistency, all the items correlated positively (with a level of significance of p <.001) with the overall score obtained by each respondent; exploratory factor analysis reports two components that explain 40% of the total variance and the confirmatory factor analysis shows a good adjustment to two factors (χ2 = 16.70, RMSEA = 0.000, χ2 / df = 0.49).

Conclusion:

Institutional characteristics that generate stress, in school institutions, is one of the least researched areas ; one of the main reasons is the lack of instruments that allow us to measure how various situational variables influence the assessment that the subject makes of the demands to consider them stressors. In this sense, this short version of the ICIE becomes a valid option for this type of studies.

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