Rasgos de personalidad y niveles de ansiedad en padres con hijos con discapacidad en Cuenca

Abstract

The research aims to know how the variables personality and anxiety influence the functional development of parents or caregivers in their environment and in relation to the care of children with disabilities, therefore the objective of this project is to find the correlation between personality traits and the levels of anxiety of parents of children with disabilities in Cuenca. To do this, we are going to use the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, abbreviated version (EPQR-A) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in a population made up of 89 parents or caretakers that will attend voluntarily to the calls made from different institutions in the city, such as Olimpiadas Especiales del Azuay, Adinea and Kawallu. The focus of this investigation is quantitative with a non-experimental design in which we use the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (IBM SPSS) version 25.0 to process and analyze the data. The results obtained shows that there is a positive correlation between neuroticism and anxiety and a low negative correlation between extraversion and anxiety. People who have a level of anxiety classified as a clinical problem are those who have traits of Neuroticism. The subscale of psychoticism was invalidated within the study due to the low internal consistency evidenced in Cronbach's alpha.