Nivel de empatía en los adolescentes que han infringido la norma en Cúcuta.

Abstract

The present research entiled level of empathy in adolescents who have infringed the rules aims to determine the level of empathy of adolescents who have violated the norm in the city of Cúcuta through the application of the Cognitive and Affective Empathy Test (TECA) analyzing the issue in question through a mixed research design in which two inatruments were used. The first instrument implemented was Cognitive and Affective Empathy Test (TECA), it is base don the quantitative method. The second takes into account the qualitative type tha consist of a sociodemographic interview for inquiring about the IX personal, family and social environment of adolescents, these instruments were aplied to 25 adolescents who are part of the Teenage Criminal Responsability System (SRPA); where it was obtained as result that the majority of those evaluated present a level of global empathy categorized in low, from this, a notebook was designed as a intervention method for strengthening of Empathy.