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Mario Eduardo Castro Torres1, Pablo Marcelo Vargas-Piérola2, Carlos F Pinto1
1Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, Casilla, Sucre 212, Bolivia.
Abstract:
Background: Although several studies have shown that social capital and social support decreases academic stress (AS), there has been lack of atheoretical model to explain how this occurs. This study aims to verify a model that explains the effect of bonding social capital (BSC) over academic stress psychological symptoms (PsyS), considering the multiple sequential mediation of socio-emotional support (SES), self-efficacy (sEffic) and self-esteem (sEstee). Methods: In a transversal study, 150 undergraduate volunteer students were recruited using non-probabilistic purposive sampling. Data were collected using psychological questionnaires and were processed through partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Results: Goodness of fit of the models (SRMR = 0.056, 0.057,
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