Rasgos de personalidad y su relación con la capacidad de adaptación en adolescentes

Abstract

The present research aimed to determine the relationship between personality traits and adaptability in adolescents from the Unidad Educativa Hermano Miguel in the city of Latacunga. The study is quantitative, cross sectional and correlational, with the participation of 196 students belonging to the second and third years of the unified general high school. Psychological tests were applied: Personality Factor Questionnaire 16PF-5 and Hugo Bell's Adaptation Questionnaire for Adolescents. Data verification was performed with the SPSS statistical program, using Spearman's correlational test, which showed a relationship between personality traits and adaptability, with a statistical significance of (p <0.001), for the traits of: affability, emotional stability, attention to norms, daring, abstraction, privacy, apprehension, self-sufficiency and tension. However, the traits of: reasoning, dominance, animation, sensitivity, vigilance, openness to change and perfectionism do not have a significant relationship with the ability to adapt. xiii Likewise, of the 196 students surveyed, 62.2% represent women and 37.8% men, resulting in poor adaptation capacity at the general level of the population studied, where men have a high percentage (66.2%), while women only present 18.9%, which shows that they have better capacities and tools when facing difficulties throughout their life cycle.