Abstract

CALDERA MONTES, Juan Francisco; ACEVES LUPERCIO, Brenda Isabel  and  REYNOSO GONZALEZ, Óscar Ulises. Resilience in university students. A comparative study among different careers. Psicogente [online]. 2016, vol.19, n.36, pp.227-239. ISSN 0124-0137.  https://doi.org/10.17081/psico.19.36.1294.

This paper aimed to know the level of resilience from a sample of university students in a public institution of education in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. In addition to that, the relationship and difference between resilience and the variables of gender, age and socioeconomic status were analyzed. For this research, it was used the Resilience Scale developed by Wagnild and Young (1993) in the version translated and adapted to Spanish by Heilemann, Kury and Lee (2003), which consists of 25 reagents in the Likert scaling. This was used to measure the variable of interest. The results show high levels of resilience in university students and there were no significant differences between the career, sex and age variables. It was concluded that high resilience is a very generalized characteristic in the majority of college students. Finally, further research with other sample sizes and other careers is highly recommended. Likewise, the works, not included in this study, that relate resilience to other psychosocial variables are recommended as well.

Keywords : Resilience; University students; Resilience Scale..

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