Gender and resilience in Psychology Students: A post-confinement study due to COVID-19

Abstract

The confinement caused by Covid-19 has been a negative impact for the mental health of the world's population; in university students, also affected the change of style from in person to virtual. Objective: To know the relationship between gender and resilience in Psychology students; with the purpose of design psychoeductional intervention strategies to promote/prevent their mental health. A transversal quantitative study was carried out, by an inferential correlational, by a convenience intentional simple. In the study 1069 Psychology students participated, of  the Private University San Juan Bautista, in Lima, 77%   (n=823)  women, 23% (n=246), men: ages between 16 to 67 years (  = 20.96, DS= 4,6 ). We used SPSSv26 for descriptive statistics analysis and comparisons. Means Used: Sociodemographic data questionnaire (ad hoc) and Resilience scale (Wagnild & Young, 1993). Results: 1) Personal Competence: There is a significant difference between men and women. 2) In women is evidenced a greater frequency of low levels of Personal Competence, while men show greater frequency of very high levels. Conclusions: The gender of Psychology students directly influences the levels of personal competence, dimension of Resilience. It is significant that the frequency of low levels of Personal Competence is higher in women than in men