Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:27:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juliana_Allegretti.pdf: 581604 bytes, checksum: 43c3a099ad486a206a3d11d8a20acbdb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-02-22 / Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas / The purpose of this study was the evaluation and the comparison between married and single women regarding the incidence of stress, the stressful sources and the confrontation strategies to deal with tension. The association among symptoms, sources and strategies has been investigated. The number of women that participated was 21: a group of 10 women with high leveleduaction, professionally active, married and with children, having in average 37 years; another group of 11 college studentes (2nd. and 3rd.year), single and without children with the average of 19,8 years. The study showed high incidence of stress with predominance of psychological symptoms disclosed in both the groups, indicating that the strategies of confrontation used by the participants are insufficient or inadequate. About the stressful sources there was no significant statistics difference between the groups, however it was observed that with more stressful sources the level of stress presented became higher, what leads to the recommendation of implementing stress control programs in the prophylactic level as well in the treatment level. New studies would be really relevant to verify the real factors that determine the prevalence of decurrently symptoms of excessive stress in women. / Este estudo objetivou avaliar e comparar mulheres casadas e mulheres solteiras quanto ? incid?ncia de stress, fontes estressoras e estrat?gias de enfrentamento usadas para lidar com a tens?o. Correlacionaram-se sintomas, fontes e estrat?gias. As participantes foram um total de 21 mulheres, sendo um grupo de 10 mulheres com n?vel superior completo, profissionalmente ativas, casadas e com filhos, tendo em m?dia 37 anos e outro grupo de 11 mulheres universit?rias de 2? e 3? ano, solteiras e sem filhos com idade m?dia de 19,8 anos. O estudo revelou em ambos os grupos alta incid?ncia de stress com predomin?ncia de sintomas psicol?gicos indicando que as estrat?gias de enfrentamento utilizadas pelas participantes s?o insuficientes ou inadequadas. Quanto ?s fontes estressoras n?o houve diferen?a estat?stica significante entre os grupos, por?m observou-se que quanto mais estressores mais elevado era o n?vel de stress, o que leva a recomenda??o de que se instituam programas de controle do stress tanto a n?vel profil?tico como de tratamento. Estudos posteriores seriam de grande relev?ncia para a verifica??o dos reais determinantes da preval?ncia de sintomas decorrentes do stress excessivo nas mulheres.