Bienestar psicológico y su relación con las habilidades sociales en estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

The construct psychological well-being is defined as the self-assessment that each person makes about his or her personal satisfaction and social skills are understood as a set of skills that people use to interact socially. The main objective was to determine the relationship between psychological well-being and social skills, the specific objectives; to identify and evaluate the predominant levels of psychological well-being and social skills respectively and to compare the mean scores of psychological well-being in men and women. A quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive-correlational, cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of 200 students of Clinical Psychology (77% female and 23% male; with an age range of 17 to 30 years; with a mean age of 20.2 years) who answered the Ryff's Psychological WellBeing Scale and Goldstein's Social Skills Checklist in their adapted versions. Statistical analysis of the data was performed with JAMOVI software. It was found that there is a moderate direct correlation between psychological well-being and social skills. It was identified that the predominant level of psychological well-being was moderate, being present in almost half of the students, and when evaluating social skills, it was established that the good level was predominant in most of them. When comparing the results in men and women, it was found that there is a statistically significant difference in psychological well-being according to the sex to which they belong.