title: Psychosocial stressors perceived in the process of social reintegration and compliance time remaining in prison sentence.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study shows the results obtained from evaluating the main psychosocial stressors perceived in the process of social reintegration and their relation to a remaining sentence time in prison.
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire based on an ad hoc design was administered, using a Likert scale, with a total of 383 inmates serving sentences in southeast Spain.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings show that inmates with a remaining sentence period of more than one year, like those who had served more than a year of their sentence, showed greater concern about possible economic difficulties.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The psychosocial stressors studied might provide relevant information to facilitate the process of social reintegration after the completion of a prison sentence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine and Social and Health Sciences, University of Murcia, Murcia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: García-Jarillo
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine and Social and Health Sciences, University of Murcia, Murcia.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Caravaca-Sánchez
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine and Social and Health Sciences, University of Murcia, Murcia.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Alcaraz
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine and Social and Health Sciences, University of Murcia, Murcia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Luna
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment; D013030:Spain; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000191:economics / Q000209:etiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult