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Liberabit

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HERNANDEZ ZAMORA, Zoila Edith. Variables intervening in resistant personality and management strategies in aged people. Liberabit [online]. 2009, vol.15, n.2, pp. 153-161. ISSN 1729-4827.

The purpose of this research was to determine the level of Resistant Personality (RP), its relationship with the level of management strategies, as well as with other psychological and sociodemographic variables of a sample of 102 aged persons who attend a diurnal home special for this kind of people. The results show that most of the participants have a high level of RP, and no one resulted with a low level in this constructo. The variables significantly associated with a high RP are: sex, independence, education, self perception of health, and repercussion on their mood of their illnesses. According to the level of management strategies, most of them were placed at middle level, without exixting correlations in this aspect with other variables of study. Werecommend to carry out further research with populations of this same kind of group, although in different habitas, as well as with other groups to compare the results.

Keywords : Aged people; Health; Management strategies; Resistant personlaity; Stress.

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