01824nas a2200205   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653002000118653002400138653003100162653002200193100002900215700002900244245010200273300001000375490000600385520119900391022001401590020001401604       1999                            d  c01/1999bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aAcademic stress10aUniversity students10aUniversity Stressors Scale10astress assessment1 aCecilia Peñacoba Puente1 aBernardo Moreno Jiménez00aUniversity Stressors Scale: A proposal for the assessment of stress in specific group populations  a61-780 v53 aThe present paper suggests a measure for university stressors. In order to elaborate the EEU scale (University Stressor Scale), it proceeded to do group dynamics where students were asked about their inconvenience and worry reasons. With their answers, the EEU scale was elaborated. This scale has 30 items and it has two ways for answer: the occurrence of stressor and the perceived disconfort associated to it. The aim of present paper is to test the validity of this scale. Firstly, we want to test the specificity of this scale in this group (university students). Secondly, we analyze the discriminant capacity of this scale (using as a variable the experienced symthomatology). Results show that the EEU items are representative of the real stressors of university students, and that it is a good instrument for discriminating students with good health against students with poor health. Finally, the results show that when the scale is specific, particular of a population (in this case of university students), the ocurrence of stressor by itself discriminates students with good health against students with poor health, and the perceived disconfort associated plays an accessory role.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437