Resiliencia en niños que han vivido maltrato infantil. Centros de acogimiento institucional de Azuay y Cañar. 2016

Abstract

Objective: To determine the level of resilience in children from Azuay and Cañar shelter houses. Method: A cross-sectional study performed in 90 children, ages from 8 to 12 years referred for child abuse from Azuay and Cañar shelters. For data collection the inventory of personal resilience factors of Salgado, personality questionnaire BFQ-NA, and an intelligence test K-BIT were applied. Descriptive analysis for data analysis was performed, and the U Mann Whitney for hypothesis testing. Results: Participants showed a normal resilience average of 68.9%, 23.3% high, 6.7 low and 1.1% very low. In personality, average values were found in factors such as: consciousness (43.3%), openness (41.1%), extraversion (45.6%) and emotional instability (40%), the lowest scores were in the kindness factor (38.9%). In the intellectual assessment, participants showed a percentage in low intelligence (26.7%), medium (25.6%) and medium low (24.4%). Conclusions: Participants in this study presented an average resilience (normal) in its categories: consciousness, openness, extraversion, kindness and emotional instability. The intellectual performance is below the average genera.