ESTUDIO DESCRIPTIVO Y COMPARATIVO DE AUTOEFICACIA EN ADULTOS MAYORES

Abstract

La autoeficacia es la creencia sobre las propias capacidades para realizar una tarea. El grado de autoeficacia reconocido puede depender de procesos psicobiologicos como del contexto historico-social del sujeto. Cuando un sujeto se percibe con limitaciones reales o imaginadas y las magnifica, acepta negativamente la situacion y comienza a comportarse en funcion de esa idea; el entorno reacciona en consecuencia y tratar al sujeto como incapaz, reforzando la percepcion negativa. Los roles dentro de los cuales los adultos mayores son socialmente ubicados reprimen el cultivo y mantenimiento de la autoeficacia percibida. En funcion de esto, se evaluo el grado de autoeficacia percibida en una muestra de 240 adultos mayores argentinos, mediante una escala especifica, comparando sujetos segun genero, grupo etario y estado civil, comparando luego con resultados internacionales. El grado de Autoeficacia, expresado por los AM argentinos, en general responde a una performance bastante elevada, se sienten y reconocen eficaces para enfrentar la realidad; sin embargo, hay influencia de aspectos afectivos y emocionales. Comparando con la muestra internacional, en la muestra argentina el grado de autoeficacia se mantiene en niveles moderados. Concluimos que la autoeficacia varia en funcion de factores socio-educativos y no solo en funcion de la edad. Palabras Clave Autoeficacia Adultos Mayores Viejismo Abstract DESCRIPTIVE AND COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SELFEFFICACY IN ELDER ADULTS. Self-efficacy is the belief about self capacity to achieve a task. Acnowledged self-efficcacy degree can depend on psychobiological processes as on subject’s historic-social environment. When a subject perceives himself with imagined o real limitations, and magnify them, he negatively accepts the situation, and begins to act according to the idea; the environment reacts according to that,and treats the subject as incapable, enforcing negative perception. The roles in which elder adults are subsumed in, are socially located, they repress perceived self-efficacy’s growth and support. As a function to this, it’s been evaluated the degree of perceived self-efficacy in a sample of 243 argentine elder adults, using an specific scale, comparing subjects according to gender, age group, civil state, comparing then with international results. Self-efficacy degree expressed by argentine EA, generally responds to a rather high performance, they feel and acknowledge themselves effective to face reality; however, there is influence of affective and emotional aspects. Comparing to an international sample, in argentine sample self-efficacy’s degree stands in moderate levels. We concluded that self-efficacy varies as a function of social-educative factors, and not only as a function of age. Key words Self-efficacy Elder adults Ageism

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