Estrategias de afrontamiento al estrés y variables sociodemográficas en un grupo de guardas de la empresa Zona de seguridad Ltda.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to describe the relationship between stress coping strategies and sociodemographic variables in a group of guards from the company Zona de Seguridad Ltda. Bogotá headquarters. A descriptive-correlational study was carried out. For this, the inventory of coping responses for Adults CRI-A and a sociodemographic questionnaire were applied, which was carried out from the variables found in the battery of instruments for the evaluation of psychosocial risk factors prepared by the Ministry of Social Protection. For the purposes of the research, a simple random sampling was carried out, we worked with a population of 150 security guards at the Bogotá headquarters where everyone had the opportunity to participate, were summoned and informed about the application of the test and this yielded a sample of 101 guards. It was found that the socioeconomic level and the problem solving coping scale (SP) generate a correlation, in addition, the most used coping scales, according to the female sex are positive reevaluation (PR), search for guidance and support (BG) and emotional discharge (ED), while males use more the alternative reward seeking (BR) and positive reassessment (PR) scales. On the other hand, according to age, there may be a greater use of the problem-solving coping scale (SP). It is important to recognize that the coping strategies that the participants score are associated with the situations that generate stress for them, and many make references to personal situations, generally removing stress from the work area, which incurs a great finding for the organization.