La importancia de la red de apoyo social para la emancipación de jóvenes en acogimiento residencial

  1. Gema Campos 1
  2. Rosa Goig 2
  3. Elena Cuenca 2
  1. 1 Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid
  2. 2 Departamento de Métodos y Diagnóstico en Educación, Facultad de Educación, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid
Journal:
Electronic journal of research in educational psychology

ISSN: 1696-2095

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 18

Issue: 50

Pages: 27-54

Type: Article

DOI: 10.25115/EJREP.V18I50.2599 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Introduction: This work studies the situation of young people after leaving residential care when they become of age. We have analysed, specifically, one of the most relevant factors for the emancipation: the perception of the social support network. Method: This is a descriptive quantitative study. To this end, a questionnaire (C4) was created and validated with experts, it has open and closed questions distributed in eight dimensions: housing and accommodation, family, social and affective relations, health, training, labour integration and economic management and residential life. The participants of the study are included in the Preparation Plan for Independent Living of the Community of Madrid and are equivalent to the 70% of the total population. Results: The results show that the social network comes from the centre and other care institutions, followed by friends from the neighbourhood and schools and high schools; there are some cases of social isolation. In regard of the social support that they identify, they perceive help from educators and friends, to a lesser extent from the family, whose support is mainly material, and from the couple; both being valued as unstable sources of help. New networks appear with the creation of a new family through maternity, considering that it undermines their autonomy much more than it facilitates it. The quality of the relationships with those who live with them has special relevance in their subjective well-being evaluation. Discussion or Conclusion: Young people look up for figures who have a real interest in their lives, people who listen to them and accompany them with relative independence of the context from which they come: family, community, school, residential, etc. Therefore, with regard to educational intervention, facilitating interdependence and working towards the attainment and maintenance of a social network, even if it is made up of only one or two people, are guarantees of a satisfactory intervention that favours their well-being.

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Esta investigación se ha realizado dentro del proyecto CTINV084/15-EVAP (Evaluación del Plan de Autonomía Personal 16-21) desarrollado por el grupo de investigación Contextos de Intervención Socioeducativa de la Facultad de Educación de la UNED (IP del proyecto: Miguel Melendro) y subvencionado por la Dirección General de la Familia y el Menor de la Comunidad de Madrid; Fundación ISOS; Opción 3 S.C. y el Centro Reina Sofía sobre Adolescencia y Juventud (FAD). Quisiéramos agradecer a los trabajadores de los centros residenciales por su colaboración en la recolección de los datos.

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