Resiliencia y autoestima en un estudiante universitario con ataxia de Freidreich

Abstract

At certain times in life, a disability may appear as a result of an accident or due to a degenerative disease, such as the case study addressed in this research, which was generated from Friedreich's ataxia. A disability that occurs without warning can mean a higher bewilderment when remembering and comparing life before the event or illness. That is why the present work has as its object of study a university student with Friedreich's ataxia; thus, this study leads to raise the following scientific problem: How does resilience and self-esteem influence a university student suffering from Friedreich's ataxia? To answer this question, we have proposed as a general objective to determine the incidence of resilience and self-esteem in a student with Friedreich's ataxia. Based on the supporting theory, it has been decided to approach the present work from a qualitative / interpretative paradigm, highlighting the arguments of the hermeneutic approach that are combined in the qualitative paradigm to achieve the interpretation of the word emitted verbally by the subject under study. Therefore, to delimit the levels of resilience and self-esteem, a qualitative methodology was implemented that gives the ease of interpreting the situations that the student manifests through the interview; in this way it is intended to potentiate the object of study. The tools that were used for the collection of information was the observation in the first instance, then the interview in charge of establishing a bank of structured questions, likewise the application of the Rosemberg scale designed by Morris Rosemberg created to explore the perception of self-esteem in people, this scale includes ten items that value feelings of respect and acceptance about oneself. Finally, the CD-RISC-10 scale designed by Connor and Davidson was used, which contains excellent psychometric properties and a high level of reliability, this scale has 25 items that allow to identify resilient behaviors, the aforementioned instruments were applied in the city of El Guabo to a 25-year-old with Friedreich's ataxia. The results obtained on the Rosemberg scale to measure his self-esteem yielded a score of 28, reflecting that the student maintains a medium level of self-esteem and in the application of the CD-RISC-10 Scale, in the sum of the 25 items a score of 70 is obtained, the same that frames a list of characteristics of high resilience. As a conclusion of our research work, we can highlight that the individual, thanks to resilience, has managed to build his existence after incorporating his own experiences, turning them into learning that produce "comfort".