Factores personales y equilibrio ocupacional en jóvenes infractores de la ley.

Abstract

The objective of the present investigation was to analyze to what extent the offending adolescents who are deprived of their liberty in the NGO Crecer en familia in the municipality of Los Patios-Norte de Santander/Colombia managed to participate in the occupations of life, reaching a condition of positive adaptation, as well as determine personal factors such as: upbringing, experiences, habits and patterns of past and current life behavior that affect the occupational balance of said population. For this, a sample of 30 male subjects belonging to the NGO crecer en familia was taken, who agreed to participate in the study voluntarily. Firstly, field work was carried out to characterize the population, followed by the application of instruments from the Occupational Therapy area, such as the historical occupational performance interview (OPHI II) and the Occupational Questionnaire (OQ) in order to establish the existing relationship of the variables under study. The results espectáculo that adolescents do not have an occupational balance since they do not identify a satisfactory lifestyle showing extreme dysfunction from the occupational point of view, which indicates that they lack occupations with meaning and occupational identity, affecting the construction of a life project and in the occupational and social well-being of the subjects. This leads us to conclude that young people perform occupations mechanically and randomly without meaning, resulting in the distorted construction of an occupational identity.