Social skills and resilience in adolescents of secondary education of the Kumamoto I 3092 educational institution, of the Puente Piedra district - Lima 2019

Social skills are the behaviors that the individual adopts on a regular basis at specific moments in everyday life. Resilience is the way in which the individual faces the adversity that life imposes on them, as well as manages to overcome it. In adolescence, problems are perceived because important changes are generated in an accelerated way, many adolescents develop psychological disorders or alterations that could compromise their own lives, if not detected in time, therefore, the objective of this study is to determine the social skills and resilience in adolescents of secondary education of the Kumamoto Educational Institution I 3092, of the Puente Piedra district - Lima, 2019. Applying a quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive, and correlational study, with a population of 626 adolescents from the Kumamoto I 3092 educational institution in the Puente Piedra district, who answered a questionnaire with sociodemographic data and the instruments of the social skills scale and the Connor-Davidson questionnaire for resilience. In the results, the predominance of the medium level in both variables, in social skills with 87.5%, in resilience with 58.3%, concluding the need to carry out interventions in adolescent students, to prevent the inadequate development of their personality.