Análisis de las variables psicosociales asociadas a la salud mental y consumo de sustancias en estudiantes de bachillerato del ecuador 2015

Abstract

The present work shows the analysis and distribution of the psychosocial variables associated to substance use and mental health in high school students, institutions corresponding to Administrative Education Zone number 1, in a sample applied accidentally to 80 students, applying the Due process, keeping confidentiality and validating only the batteries containing the prior consent of students and parents in order to be able to do data collection. The battery that was used to obtain the information contained nine instruments that addressed the following variables, sociodemographic data age, sex and year of high school, stress level, personality type "A", psychological inflexibility, problematic consumption of alcohol, Social support, resilience, problem drug use, anxiety, depression, and life satisfaction. In this way the results obtained allowed to analyze the variables associated to the consumption and to establish as protective variables the low stress, low psychological inflexibility, low anxiety - depression and good level of vital satisfaction, as well as the risk variables Personality Type A and low social support , Independent of sex.