Resiliencia en deportistas paralímpicos de baloncesto en silla de ruedas: estudio de caso.

Abstract

The present research has a qualitative type with a narrative design and exploratory descriptive scope; It aims to explore the process of resilience of Paralympic athletes of the Yopal Casanare basketball league, through a population triangulation, which allows evidence of this adaptation process with a view to the design of psychological intervention strategies for their benefit personal, family and social in the future, in order to fulfill the objective, it was carried out with a sample of 11 participants including: 5 athletes, 5 family members (of them) and the coach of the sports league; to which a semi-structured interview designed for each population group was applied, where it consisted of four categories: Resilience, Life Project, Adaptation and Acceptance of reality. In that same sense it is possible to show that sports have developed the resilience process due to the different irrigation situations, it was found that the process of adaptation and acceptance to the reality of athletes is evident and that due to family and psychological support that they have received, it has been possible to achieve an adaptation to the situation of life, in addition to this it is shown that the family in adverse situations serves as a source of support, in addition to this, an emerging category emerged due to the additions to the consumption of liquor that Some participants use as a distracting medium.