Estrategias de afrontamiento en personas de 40 a 55 años frente al desempleo.

Abstract

The objective of this undergraduate study was to identify, through descriptive quantitative research, the coping strategies used by unemployed people between the ages of 40 and 55 to face the unemployment situation, this study was carried out during the first semester of 2020 where 20 unemployed people who had been unemployed for more than 6 months and had bachelor education participated. To collect the information, the Modified Coping Strategy Scale proposed by Londoño, Henao, Puerta, Posada, Arango and Aguirre in 2006 was used. This test is made up of 69 items grouped into twelve factors (factor 1: Solution of the problem, factor 2: Search for social support, factor 3: Waiting, factor 4: Religion, factor 5: Emotional avoidance, factor 6: Search for professional support, factor 7: Aggressive Reaction, factor 8: Cognitive avoidance, factor 9: Positive reevaluation, factor 10: Expression of coping difficulties, factor 11 Negation and factor 12 Autonomy) divided into two coping styles: the style aimed at solving the problem and the style directed at emotions. In the results obtained from the scale, it was found that the coping strategies used by unemployed people between the ages of 40 and 55 were: the search for social support, the search for professional support, autonomy, waiting, emotional avoidance, aggressive reaction and denial. Likewise, it was found that the most used coping strategies were found to be directed towards emotion.