Bienestar en madres estudiantes de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Cuenca del periodo octubre 2020-marzo 2021

Abstract

Well-being is the degree of satisfaction that people have with their life, which generates positive emotions, builds relationships and gets to feel good. There are factors that are detrimental to well-being such as saturation, saturation or overload of activities, stress, the demands of the environment, among others. In the case of university women, even more so if she is a mother, she faces academic demands, along with the stage of motherhood where she faces multiple demands and responsibilities, such as her care, food, clothing, health and well-being. kids. This creates an imbalance, since these two roles together represent a great load of activities and saturation in the time of the student mother. The objective of the research was to determine the well-being index of the student mothers of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Cuenca. The research had a quantitative approach and was cross-sectional. The study participants were mother students from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Cuenca. The instrument used was the World Health Organization (WHO) Well-being Scale (WBI / WHO5), the information was collected virtually. Among the results of the research are that the level of well-being of student mothers is low, however, a relationship between marital status, number of children and socioeconomic level with wellbeing levels was not evidenced. Although a significance is evidenced between the activity they carry out and well-being, since the student mothers who also had work activities presented very low levels of well-being