eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2016-05-13 4 7 556 562 10.12691/education-4-7-8 EDUCATION2016478 article Luis Fernando Hernández Jácquez lfhj1@hotmail.com 1 Pedagogical University of Durango, Durango, Mexico This research deals around the variables of academic self-efficacy and academic stress arising from the problems presented by undergraduate students of a university in Mexico; it is regarding the perception of poor security experience to do their assignments. The results presented are the first stage of a quantitative study, no experimental and evolutionary groups (cohort), based on the self-efficacy theory of Albert Bandura. These results show that the students had an average level of perceived academic self-efficacy and a moderate level of academic stress, concluding that it was not possible to establish statistically significant correlation between the two variables. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/4/7/8/education-4-7-8.pdf academic self-efficacy academic stress university students