Daniela Cristina Caicedo Castro

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Background: The study of resilience data 50 years ago, specialists were interested in understanding the characteristics of children who developed strength after suffering a trauma or have lived under unfavorable conditions (Vera, 2006). This research exposes resilience differences by gender and type of therapy both sexes received. With the support of theoretical bases and academic research, this research seeks to demonstrate a significant difference between sexes, stating that women are more resilient than men. Also, this research discusses whether a humanistic therapy approach is more effective than the cognitive approach with regards to resilience. Method: 42 subjects who received a minimum of 5 sessions of psychological therapy students at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito were selected. The age range of the participants are 18 to 75 years old. Resilience scale with Mexicans (RESI-M) was used to analyze the levels of resilience of the participating subjects and thus determine if the study hypothesis is true. The data analysis was performed with the normality test Kolmogorov-Smirnov and immediately applied for correlation T student gender, type of therapy and the scale factors. Results: The results revealed no significant difference in resilience in relation to gender and type of therapy. The only significant difference was found particularly in the factor 4 family support scale resilience—they had higher scores in people who received cognitive behavioral therapy. Conclusions: We conclude that there is no significant difference in resilience by gender and type of therapy. This corroborates studies Prado and del Águila (2003) who in …

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