“Inteligencia y estrategias de afrontamiento en estudiantes universitarios”

Abstract

The present investigation was designed to determine the relation between the Intelligence and coping stratetegies in university students of the Technical University of Ambato, the Faculty of Sciences and Food Engineering of the province of Tungurahua, Ambato canton. The study was conformed of 100 female and male of which 64 are women and 34 are men in aged between 18 and 29 years. The reagents applied were The Simple OTIS Intelligence Test which evaluates the IQ the subject and The Stress Coping Strategies Questionnaire CAE, that evaluates the types of strategies. Subsequently, with the data obtained and processed using the statistical program SPSS through the Chi sqaure test (X2) concluded that intelligence not be related to Coping Strategies which throws an accurate biteral of 0.79 significance; determining that 0.79>0.05. In addition, it identifies the coping strategy most used by this population es the positive revaluation (REP), where people try to change the meaning of this problematic situation by focousing on positive aspects that have this situation. With regard to intelligence the 76% of the population obtained as a result and intelectual quotient that corresponds to the mean where it shows us that our population is in normal range according to the qualification obtained from the reagents applied.