Abstract

PENA FLORES, Naomi Erika. Sources of resilience in students from Lima and Arequipa. Liberabit [online]. 2009, vol.15, n.1, pp. 59-64. ISSN 1729-4827.

The present study has as general aims identify and compare the levels of the Sources of Resilience of a group between 9 and 11 years old of public schools from Lima and Arequipa. The sample was intentional. The instrument used was The Inventory of Resilience's sources constructed and validated by Peña in 2008. the results were analyzed through the distribution of frecuency, the arithmetic mean (x), the standard deviation and theUMann-Whitney test.Among the principal results, we didn't find statistically significant differences in the levels of resilience's sources between groups from Lima and from Arequipa, and we found significant differences in levels of resilience's sources between the groups of males and women. The implications of the study have been discussed.

Keywords : Resilience; Resilience's sources; Children; City of origin; Gender; Public school.

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