Impacto de la resiliencia en la calidad de vida en personas con discapacidad

Abstract

Resilience has a great impact on the lives of people with disabilities, it acts as a resource with which to face the various adversities of their daily lives, this ability to adapt and overcome allows them to better manage the emotional, social and physical challenges they may suffer as a result of their disability, through resilience. This group of people could develop appropriate strategies with which to better manage stress and, consequently, improve their quality of life and well-being. Consequently, the present study aimed to analyze the impact of resilience on the quality of life of people with disabilities in order to understand the influence of resilient factors on their well-being and adaptation. A sample of four people with disabilities was used for the development of the study, who were randomly selected and were between the ages of 18 and 65 years old. The instruments used for this research were the observation and the semi-structured interview. Obtaining as results that the quality of life of those people who suffer disability is closely related to their subjective wellbeing, highlighting the fact that the resilient capacity that individuals can show can regulate these impacts, through attitudes or adaptive changes in their lives. Concluding on the need to generate programs oriented to strengthen those indispensable factors to improve resilience and support networks in this group of people, it has been proved the fundamental role that these play in their disability and in the correct adaptation to it.