Procesos resilientes en hombres y mujeres que pertenecen a la etapa del ciclo vital de la juventud que atravesaron por una ruptura amorosa

Abstract

The present study was carried out with heterosexual men and women who belong to youth life cycle, who reside in the city of Bogotá, Colombia and who also went through a process of love breakup after a minimum of one year of relationship. The population was chosen in order to understand the resilient processes regarding of a breakup in the stage of youth life cycle. To comply with the above, a second order qualitative methodology was used; as an inclusion criterion, an Agnild and Young Resilience Scale was applied to identify the degree of resilience of the participants. After the application of the psychometric test, an individual interview was conducted and then two focus groups in which men and women participated intentionally in order to know their points of view regarding the process of rupture according to their gender identity, making visible the different understandings that allowed the realization of an analysis transversal category within the framework of complexity and systemic thinking, based on both constructivist and constructionist views. In this way it was possible to visualize differences in relation the resilient processes that both men and women have regarding of a rupture of a couple in their youth, understanding that these processes emerge from the different relationships with family and friends and from the different adverse experiences that they provide a series of tools that allow to overcome these situations in a certain way, likewise it was possible to show that there are different expectations from those initially proposed in relation to the establishment of a couple considered stable in the stage of the life cycle of youth.