Social support, personal competencies and community intervention in higher education students
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The higher education academic context can increase the exposure of young people to the needs and health risks.
The World Health Organization offers programs teaching life skills in order to develop adaptive and socially appropriate
behaviors in children and young people in order to enable them for the challenges of everyday life. Taking to account
the need to know the risks and protective factors, ie,individual attributes, situational, environmental and social
increase or reduce the probability of a certain problem, or illness in young students is the aim of this investigation.
The co relational study in a proportionate stratified sample by course and school includes 272 male students (40.5%)
and 400 female students (59.5%), totaling 672.
Concerning the satisfaction of social support there were higher average scores; personal competencies the results
were moderate to high. Also, the correlations obtained between the factors studied are statistically Significant.
There were also statistical significance in terms of academic variables. The inevitable changes of this evolutionary stage,
it is concluded by the reinforcement of self-protective behaviors: in response to individual cases flagged and
interventions in promoting student organizations and other community school.
