Title
Autoestima como mediador entre Afecto positivo-negativo y resiliencia en niños
Self-esteem as a mediator between positive-negative affection and resilience in a sample of Mexican children
Author
NORMA IVONNE GONZALEZ ARRATIA LOPEZ FUENTES
ALEJANDRA DEL CARMEN DOMINGUEZ ESPINOSA
JOSE LUIS VALDEZ MEDINA
Access level
Open Access
Subjects
HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA - (CTI) Autoestima - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) Afecto positivo - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) Afecto negativo - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) Resiliencia - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) Niños - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) México - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) Self-esteem - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) Positive affection - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) Negative affection - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) Resilience - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) Children - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621]) - ([Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017), ISSN: 2007-9621])
Summary or description
El presente estudio tiene como objetivo verificar el rol mediador de la autoestima en la relación entre el afecto positivo (AP), afecto negativo (AN) y resiliencia en niños. Se trata de un estudio transversal con una muestra de 188 niños entre 9 y 12 años de edad, aplicándose tres escalas que incluyen medición de la resiliencia, autoestima y afecto positivo-negativo. Se realizaron análisis descriptivos, de correlación producto momento de Pearson mediante los cuales se identifican asociaciones positivas y significativas entre las variables excepto el AN. Del análisis de trayectorias se comprueba que la autoestima es una variable moderadora sobre las relaciones entre AP y resiliencia. Sin embargo, se requiere continuar identificando variables que mejor explican la resiliencia infantil.
The present study aims to provide evidence for the mediator effect of self-esteem between the positive (PA) and negative affection (NA) of resilience in children. We conducted the cross-sectional study on a sample of 188 Mexican school children aged between 9 and 12 years old (X = 10.59, D. E. = 0.69). The students answered the scales of self-esteem by González-Arratia (2011a), which is the version of the PANAS scale of positive-negative affection (Watson, Clark & Tellegen, 1988) and resilience (González-Arratia, 2011b) validated for Mexican samples. Descriptive analysis, correlation, and a trajectory model through the structural equations with the method of the maximum likelihood for verification were conducted. The results show a moderate correlation between the variables. The proposed model suggests a significant direct effect of PA on resilience but not for NA. A significant indirect effect of self-esteem on resilience supports the main hypothesis. Further research is required to continue specifying
the model in a diversified sample, as well as to analyze the potential differences according to gender and age.
Publisher
Universidad de Guanajuato
Publish date
March 23, 2017
Publication type
Article
Publication version
Published Version
Information Resource
Format
application/pdf
application/pdf
Source
Acta Universitaria. Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal. Vol 27 No 1 (2017)
ISSN: 2007-9621
Language
Spanish
Relation
http://actauniversitaria.ugto.mx/index.php/acta/article/view/1140
Source repository
Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Guanajuato
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