Analysis of the resilience factors reported by mothers and teenage children who have experienced forced displacement. Análisis de los factores de resiliencia reportados por madres e hijos adolescentes que han experimentado el desplazamiento forzado.

Abstract

This article analyzes the relationship between resilience factors of 62 mothers and their children reported by adolescents aged 12 to 18 years, people who are in condition of forced displacement located in the city of Barranquilla. The methodological approach included a non-experimental , correlational type transeccional two study samples. The instrument used was the Resilience Scale Wagnild and Young, reviewed in 1993, to measure five resilience factors specified in confidence , equanimity, perseverance , personal satisfaction and feeling good alone. Among the main findings is emphasized that both the mothers and the children with high levels of resilience, but the results show that there is a statistically significant association between resilience factors of the mother and resilience factors for children, the factor associated with higher level of correlation was that of perseverance with 95% with an index (r = .314).