“Los niveles de estrés y su relación con las funciones mentales superiores de los procesos de aprendizaje en niños y niñas con antecedentes de maltrato”

Abstract

This research was carried out with the purpouse of determining the relationship between the levels of stress and the higher mental functions involved in the learning processes in boys and girls than in the Institutional Foster Home "Fundación Don Bosco" of Ambato city, this research project is of correlational and cross-sectional type, has with a sample of 40 children between 7 and 11 years old, who were evaluated through the IECI Child Stress Inventory to know the stress levels and the CUMANES School Neuropsychological Maturity Questionnaire to determine the Development Index Neurological IDN of this population. After the application of the respective reagents, the Pearson R test was performed using the SPSS program, which showed that there is no statistically significant relationship between stress levels and higher mental functions of learning processes, however, It was found that there is a negative correlation between these variables, in the subdomains such as VP Visoperception, Executive Function-e FE-e and Verbal Memory MV, so the hypothesis is met partially, that is, at lower levels of stress, They find better scores in these subdomains. In another hand, high percentages were recorded in terms of "Severe" stress levels, with the Family and School scales presenting the highest rate of severe stress in the population, as well as the significant prevalence of a "Very Low" NDI in the middle of the population evaluated 50%, and of a level "Low" in another considerable percentage, also indicating the Language and its subdomains among the most affected functions