El Maltrato Infantil y su Influencia en el Nivel de Resiliencia en niños de 7 a 12 años de la Fundación Don Bosco

Abstract

The present investigation seeks to determine if the child abuse influences the levels of resilience, the study was conducted in the Don Bosco Foundation, with children ranging in age from 7-12 years. He conceptualized over a psychological approach to child abuse, the existence of abuse is identified and through the Likert scale, the frequency of which children are victims of the study group. Moreover, the levels of resilience, and personal resilience factors is determined. The population is 40 children. The orientation of the work performed qualitative and quantitative, using field research and bibliographic-documentary, with a level of association of variables and statistically test chi-square test is used by the software "SPSS" in which proves that there is no direct relationship between child abuse and levels of resilience. However, considering the high rate of abuse is recommended to work on increasing the resilience of children, as being aware that improve the environment of the child is a complex issue, it is necessary to strengthen personal resilience factors.