La autoestima y su relación con la ansiedad en adultos migrantes

Abstract

The need to leave the country of origin for an unknow destination in the hope of finding new opportunities and a better quality of live for the person himself, as well as family members, has triggered symptoms related to low self-esteem and anxiety in the adult migrant population that, in a certain way, she is linked and influenced by the estrangement from her loved ones, the desire to fit in and adapt to the socio-cultural environment where she finds herself, the desire to find a stable and solvent job, among others. The objective of the research was to analyze the relationship between self-esteem and anxiety in migrant adults through a quantitative, descriptive-correlational study with a cross-sectional approach with a sample of 110 people (35 men and 65 women) from Venezuela, Colombia and Bolivia, to whom the psychometric instruments where applied: Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory according to the study variables. The analyzed results identified a prevalence of low self-esteem in 62% of population, while the statistic in relation to anxiety showed 71% in trait- anxiety and 67% in state- anxiety. Among the variables, the existence of a statistically significant correlation between self-esteem and anxiety (p= ,000) was identified using the Spearman ́s Rho parametric test, which was moderately negative in Self-Esteem and Trait- Anxiety (Rho= -,544), when the same as Self-Esteem and State- Anxiety (Rho= -,495), showing a very strong inverse relationship.