La resiliencia y su relación con la agresividad en adolescentes infractores

Abstract

This research aims to diagnose the level of resilience and aggressiveness profile to determine the existence or nor of the relationships between both variables in Young oddenders. To meet this objective it was necessary to créate a sociodemographic record that required collecting personal information from each of the participants. Later, resilience was assessed individually through out the Wagnils and Young Resilience Scale in the adaptation by Castilla et al. (2014) and, aggressiveness using the Questionnaire of premeditated and impulsive aggressiveness in adolescents created by José Andreu (2010). A correlational study was carried out with a non-experimental cross-sectional design, the sample was made up of 37 young people between 13 and 18 years deprived of their Liberty and recruited at the Riobamba Center for Offenders Adolescents. The values obtained through the Pearson Chi Square test show that there is no relationship between the level of resistance and the type of aggressiveness (X2 (6) = 0.857, p> 0.05). Therefore, it accepts the null hypothesis which indicates that resilience and aggressiveness are independent variables in this study group.