Relationship between resilience and forgiveness as psychosocial components in adult victims of armed conflict in the community of Zipacoa

Abstract

The research has the goal to establish the related between Resilience and the capability of forgiveness as psychosocial components in adults Victims of armed conflict from Zipacoa. The research is a quantitative focus with no experimental design. The measurement of both variables studied it was necessary to apply two scales to a sample of 30 adults of Zipacoa community, resilience scale from Walnild and Young (1993) and the Caper de Casullo scale (2004). The data analysis, that is a descriptive statistic, will performed by SPSS software version 21. In the results evidence that 96,8% from the sample are resilience and the 3,2% have a measure resilience, it shows that the adults from Zipacoa are resilient persons and have capability of forgiveness of 71% show that exist a modest capability of forgiveness and 25,8 % have a total capability of forgiveness, it shows to us that the evaluated sample forgive. Related to the variables, it finds that the dimensionless of capability of forgiveness and the components of resilience, are related Between the “self”, being alone and the self-confidence, since the forgive to the others is relevant with the equanimity, the dimensionless of the situation, with the perseverance component and finally conviction and equanimity. This provides that resilience and capability of forgiveness can related from the dimensions that form up the variables.