Resiliencia en jóvenes de familias monoparentales en Cuenca

Abstract

Youth is a stage full of experiences, including biopsychosocial changes where the family plays a decisive role in the formation of the identity, the values, and the rules and also providing tools for the youths to develop better ways to overcome difficulties. Currently the family develops in different ways, is not stable. In its structure, within this diversity, is that the single-parent family has not been considered as a complete family, rather it has been seen from the economic, affective and relational deficiencies showing it as a weak and problematic family, highlighting the negative aspects of it. However, after the second half of the 20th century there was a change in the perception that society use to see these families. In the first place naming them appropriately, doing that single-parent families become more and more common every day. The single parenthood is a condition that is developing in the way that young of Cuenca overcome adversity, making their shortcomings become strengths, and reaching an individual and familiar balance structure framed in resilience, which is the ability of every individual of overcoming adversity and at the same time getting stronger from it. The objective of this work was to measure resilience levels in young people from single-parent families, 71 students from the first and third cycles of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Cuenca participated in this study, 44 were women and 27 were men. As you can see the majority were female heads, the RESI-M scale was apply obtaining high levels of resilience.