Objective: to know the explanatory potential of coping strategies on the symptoms of psychological disorders in Peruvian university students in the context of COVID-19. Methodology: quantitative with a structural equation model. The multidimensional coping strategies inventory COPE and the self-report questionnaire of symptoms of mental disorders SRQ were applied to 699 university students. Results: Three explanatory models were developed; the second model was considered because it obtained better goodness-of-fit indices. This model reflects that symptoms of psychological disorders are explained by avoidance strategies, as they are risk factors. Coping strategies are protective of psychological disorders, being moderately linked with strategies oriented to social and emotional well-being.

Objective: to know the explanatory potential of coping strategies on the symptoms of psychological disorders in Peruvian university students in the context of COVID-19. Methodology: quantitative with a structural equation model. The multidimensional coping strategies inventory COPE and the self-report questionnaire of symptoms of mental disorders SRQ were applied to 699 university students. Results: Three explanatory models were developed; the second model was considered because it obtained better goodness-of-fit indices. This model reflects that symptoms of psychological disorders are explained by avoidance strategies, as they are risk factors. Coping strategies are protective of psychological disorders, being moderately linked with strategies oriented to social and emotional well-being.

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo establecer las Propiedades Psicométricas del Inventario Breve de Potencial de Abuso Infantil en adolescentes de Instituciones educativas de Lima Metropolitana, 2020. Es un estudio de tipo descriptivo, se trabajó con una muestra probabilística tipo aleatoria simple, estuvo constituida por 463 estudiantes de educación secundaria de ambos sexos con edades de 15 a 18 años. La variable Potencial de abuso infantil se sustentó en base a la teoría del modelo ecológico de Belsky (1993) y así mismo en la teoría de los test. En los resultados se encontró que la validez de contenido a través de juicio de expertos con coeficiente de validez 1.0 ha sido favorable y el índice de fiabilidad del inventario con los 25 ítems obtenido mediante el coeficiente de fiabilidad de Kuder Richardson 20 (KR20), produjo un valor de 85.9%, el cual indica una ...

Objective: to know the explanatory potential of coping strategies on the symptoms of psychological disorders in Peruvian university students in the context of COVID-19. Methodology: quantitative with a structural equation model. The multidimensional coping strategies inventory COPE and the self-report questionnaire of symptoms of mental disorders SRQ were applied to 699 university students. Results: Three explanatory models were developed; the second model was considered because it obtained better goodness-of-fit indices. This model reflects that symptoms of psychological disorders are explained by avoidance strategies, as they are risk factors. Coping strategies are protective of psychological disorders, being moderately linked with strategies oriented to social and emotional well-being.

The psychometric properties of the Zarit Caregiver Scale applied to formal and informal caregivers of people with schizophrenia in Peru were evaluated. The internal validity of the Abbreviated Zarit Scale (EZA) was evaluated using the Kuder-Richarson 21 coefficient and a value similar to the EZ scale was obtained (coefficient = ,856).The KMO adequacy measure indicates that there is a high correlation between the items (,816) as well as Bartlett's sphericity test (p<,001). A single factor explains 54.77% of the total variability of the data. In informal caregivers, the reliability of the EZ obtained high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient=,908; Spearman-Brown coefficient=,895). The EZ applied to formal and informal caregivers obtained adequate reliability.  The EZA with a coefficient of ,879 sensitivity of 88.2% and specificity of 92.3% proved to be a recommendable ins...