Introduction:

in spite of the use of physiological, psycho-physiological and psychological indicators associated to academic stress, the scientific community has not been able to totally clear define what behavior should be followed.

Objective:

to analyze the behavior of indicators related to academic stress in university students.

Materials and methods:

they refer to the application of a procedure consisting in three stages: preparatory, experimental and results. The indicators heart frequency variability, tactile discrimination threshold, depth perception, simple reaction time and Yoshitake test were evaluated. The Statgraphic Centurion 15.0 software was used as a tool for information processing.

Results:

there are significant differences between before and after for the examined sample, in addition to differences between the variations obtained from indicators between the groups. Discrepancies were detected between the results obtained in the indicator simple reaction time, in the presence of academic stress, and those obtained by other researchers.

Conclusions:

the existence of significant differences in the behavior of chosen indicators in the presence of academic stress in university students was demonstrated, at least under experimental conditions.

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