Capacidad de resiliencia adolescente en estudiantes de 12 a 16 años. Cuenca-Ecuador

Abstract

The present research proposed to consider the levels of resilience that the adolescents of the Unidad Educativa Particular Liceo Americano Católico of the city of Cuenca, have in the city of Cuenca, considering resilience as a fundamental part of mental health. The approach used in the research was quantitative, with descriptive scope, sampling was probabilistic with a sample conformed by 402 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 16 years. The instrument used was the questionnaire JJ63 that measures the degree of the forms of coping that the adolescents use. According to the results obtained it was evidenced that, the majority of the adolescents possess a moderately resilient capacity, on the other hand, the analyzed variables in the level of schooling and the gender, do not influence in the presence of this capacity, finally, the areas that favor the development of resilient capacity were Family Functionality and the level of Creativity. Consequently, to the results before it was delineated that moderately resilient children regardless of individual factors as contextual.