Abstract
Objective: Evaluate the stress level of public school students attending popular pre-university courses, correlating the influence of parenting style to the stressful event. Methods: This is a cross-sectional and correlational study involving 113 public school students who are students of popular courses. The instruments applied were the stress scales for adolescents and the parental responsiveness and demand scales. Results: Sample is 96 women (85%) and 13 men (15%). The results show the prevalence of stress in females with a score of 3.10, close to the value considered stressed, whereas the male sample obtained a score of 2.19, with no relevant level of stress in the study. In addition, cognitive and physiological stress symptoms are highly prevalent in women, with 72.9% and 63.5% respectively, indicating greater health problems in this group. Finally, both groups are generally highly responsive and have low levels of demand. Conclusion: It is concluded that stress is very prevalent in college entrance exams for popular courses from public schools, making it a health problem to be monitored, and that, in the family context, there may be an improvement in stress symptoms if there is a relationship of character more responsive.