Estrés infantil y su relación con la atención en niños

Abstract

The present research was conducted with the objective of identifying the relationship between the level of stress and the dimensions of attention in children of the "Gonzalo Escudero" elementary school in the Saquisili canton, province of Cotopaxi. The research is quantitative, correlational and cross-sectional, with a sample of 94 girls and boys between 8 and 11 years of age. In the case of child stress, the Children's Daily Stress Inventory IECI was used to determine the levels of stress in the child, and for attention, the d2 attention test was applied, which shows the dimensions of selective attention in the child. Subsequently, using the SPSS program, Sperman's Rho test was performed, which indicated that there is no correlation between stress levels and the dimensions of attention. A high percentage was found in the "no stress" level, which leads to the conclusion that most children do not present stress in any of the areas of health, school and family, in terms of care it was found that the highest percentage of children presented high scores in the three dimensions of the test.