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- Title
Percepción de pobreza y de apoyo social en adolescentes paraguayos.
- Authors
Coppari, Norma; Bagnoli, Laura; Martínez, Larissa; Codas, Gerónimo; Lopez Humada, Heidi; Martínez Cañete, Ursula; Montanía, Maureen
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the relationship between the levels of perception of poverty and perceived social support in 1334 Paraguayan adolescents, 609 men and 725 women, aged between 12 and 18 years old (M=14.99; DE= 1.66). The results show that the variables are related: the higher the perception of poverty, the lower the perceived social support. The regression analysis allows us to predict one variable from the value of another. There were no correlations between age and the studied variables, but there were significant differences in the scales of perception of poverty and perceived social support compared to age ranges, where adolescents aged 16 to 18 got higher scores. Moreover, there were significant differences in terms of sex, where men have higher scores in scales of social support of friends and others. There were no significant differences related to family social support and age. It is relevant to point out the importance of designing public policies that strengthen the aid within socially excluded communities, since the results show that the social support is a resource perceived by adolescents to cope with situations of vulnerability and poverty.
- Publication
Summa Psicológica UST, 2018, Vol 15, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0718-0446
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18774/0719-448x.2018.15.371