Resilience and Styles of Coping With Stress in Soldiers Who Provide Voluntary Military Service in the VRAEM Zone of the Peruvian Army

Abstract

Resilience is what soldiers face in the process of becoming soldiers, the various stages of which can cause stress in their preparation. The aim was to determine the relationship between levels of resilience and coping styles with stress in soldiers in the VRAEM of the Peruvian Army in 2018, using a scientific and descriptive method, at the descriptive level, with a non-experimental correlational design, with a sample of 137 soldiers from the 31st Infantry Brigade, using the resilience scale (Wagnild & Young, 1993) adapted by (Castilla, 2014) and the dispositional form of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (Carver, 1989) adapted by (Salazar, 1993) as instruments. As a result, 41.91% use problem-focused coping and 59.56% have adequate levels of resilience. It was concluded that there is a perfect and significant correlation between levels of resilience and problem-focused coping style, with a Chi-square significance test or Fisher exact test of 0.000 < 0.050 (5%). There is no correlation between levels of resilience and emotion-focused coping style in soldiers who served in the VRAEM area as volunteers, with a significance value of Chi-square or Fisher exact test of 0.14 < 0.050 (5%), making both independent.