Aprendizaje social y estrategias de afrontamiento a los sucesos críticos del envejecimiento femenino

Abstract

Social learning and coping strategies to the critical life-events of female old aging. This article studies the relationship between social learning and coping strategies to the critical life-events of female old aging. By means of a quasi-experimental design of type pretest-postest with control group, coping strategies were evaluated until and after of an intervention of social learning on the sample of sixty old women, distributed in two groups: intervention and control. The comparative and quantitative data analysis showed significant differences in the coping style: in the intervention group the use of the active and adaptive strategies increased, those conductual and cognitive; but the use of those avoided and emotional strategies decreased. The social learning was correlated positively with an active and adaptive coping to the crisis of female old aging.