Life events leading to stress in young people

This research paper analyzes life events leading to stress in young people; focused on second semester students of the Bachelor degree in Psychology from the Humanities Faculty of the Universidad Autónoma de Campeche. The objective of this paper is to identify what life event has a stronger impact in a young person to cause low or high stress levels.Instrument: The Life Events test was used, it measures 7 areas in different contexts (Family, Social, Personal, Behavioral problems, Achievements and failures, School health), this test assesses stress levels in adolescents. It was a non-probabilistic simple, it was formed by 86 people: 68 women (79%) and 18 men (21%), whom belonged to the Faculty of Humanities of the Bachelor degree in Psychology, ages 18 – 20, at the same time constituting two different subsets: ages 18-19, 19-20. The results were obtained by central tendency taking into consideration the mean for the group analysis. The results indicate that woman reported to have experienced more stressful life events, being Family the one that influenced stress formation the most in them and Behavioral problems the one for both genders. Therefore, it is revealed that women show stress in a higher intensity, while men possess the capacity to cope with and face stress-provoking situations. Both genders deal with stress using different means.