Papers by Miguel Efren Garcés Prettel
Revista de Salud Pública, 2023
Objective To analyze the relationship between suicidal ideation and the concerns or affectations ... more Objective To analyze the relationship between suicidal ideation and the concerns or affectations perceived at the family, economic and health levels during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia, and the mediating role of family communication. Method Participants were obtained through cluster sampling and quotas, resulting in 660 Colombians (Z=1.96; variance=0.25; error=3.9%), who answered a questionnaire consisting of three reliable scales between November 1 and 30, 2020, after providing informed consent. Binary logistic regression was used to evaluate the concerns or affectations that most influenced suicidal ideation during this period. Results Thirty-five percent of the Colombian participants presented a high level of suicidal ideation. The concerns or affectations that most strongly explain this level come from the realm of health and intrafamily relationships. The effect of health concerns or affectations on suicidal ideation decreases by up to 32.4% when family communication is open. Likewise, when this type of positive communication is present, the effect of the concerns or affectations perceived in the family, such as breakdowns, distancing, and crisis of coexistence, on suicidal ideation decrease between 29.1% and 70.1%. Conclusion Open family communication is a protective factor for mental health in crisis contexts because it can contribute to preventing suicide and alleviate to the concerns or affectations generated by COVID-19. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen mental health programs through a communicative approach aimed at promoting assertive family dialog to achieve greater attention and openness to talk about concerns and affectations suffered.
Revista de comunicación, Jan 19, 2023
The media can play an important role in suicide prevention and mental health care, especially in ... more The media can play an important role in suicide prevention and mental health care, especially in a country like Colombia, affected by an internal armed conflict, and with worrying cases of suicide that increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is known that mental health conditions were accentuated during the first year of this pandemic, with the deaths of family and friends, mandatory isolation, and the economic crisis, among others. This study examines the relationship between media reception and suicidal ideation in Colombia during this period. Methodologically, this predictive, cross-sectional, and non-experimental correlational study presents the results of a survey of Colombians aged 18 to 59 (N=660) from the three most populated regions of the country, conducted from January 1 to November 30, 2020. It was found that both frequent reception of news about deaths coronavirus, as well as the intentional search for or access to information in the media about suicide cases, acted as risk predictors of suicidal ideation. Conversely, the reception of programs that promoted or strengthened spiritual life was a protective factor against suicidal ideation. Age and physical and mental health did not influence the relationship between suicidal ideation and the reception of information about these human losses. In conclusion, the way in which a pandemic and suicide cases are journalistically covered influences suicidal ideation. Exposure to audiovisual entertainment programs could help lower the levels of suicidal ideation in contexts of a health crisis, as long as they emphasize the support networks and the reasons for living that are present in the programs that promote spiritual life.
Revista de Comunicación, 2023
The media can play an important role in suicide prevention and mental health care, especially in ... more The media can play an important role in suicide prevention and mental health care, especially in a country like Colombia, affected by an internal armed conflict, and with worrying cases of suicide that increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is known that mental health conditions were accentuated during the first year of this pandemic, with the deaths of family and friends, mandatory isolation, and the economic crisis, among others. This study examines the relationship between media reception and suicidal ideation in Colombia during this period. Methodologically, this predictive, cross-sectional, and non-experimental correlational study presents the results of a survey of Colombians aged 18 to 59 (N=660) from the three most populated regions of the country, conducted from January 1 to November 30, 2020. It was found that both frequent reception of news about deaths coronavirus, as well as the intentional search for or access to information in the media about suicide cases, acted as risk predictors of suicidal ideation. Conversely, the reception of programs that promoted or strengthened spiritual life was a protective factor against suicidal ideation. Age and physical and mental health did not influence the relationship between suicidal ideation and the reception of information about these human losses. In conclusion, the way in which a pandemic and suicide cases are journalistically covered influences suicidal ideation. Exposure to audiovisual entertainment programs could help lower the levels of suicidal ideation in contexts of a health crisis, as long as they emphasize the support networks and the reasons for living that are present in the programs that promote spiritual life.
Revista de Comunicación, 2023
The media can play an important role in suicide prevention and mental health care, especially in ... more The media can play an important role in suicide prevention and mental health care, especially in a country like Colombia, affected by an internal armed conflict, and with worrying cases of suicide that increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is known that mental health conditions were accentuated during the first year of this pandemic, with the deaths of family and friends, mandatory isolation, and the economic crisis, among others. This study examines the relationship between media reception and suicidal ideation in Colombia during this period. Methodologically, this predictive, cross-sectional, and non-experimental correlational study presents the results of a survey of Colombians aged 18 to 59 (N=660) from the three most populated regions of the country, conducted from January 1 to November 30, 2020. It was found that both frequent reception of news about deaths coronavirus, as well as the intentional search for or access to information in the media about suicide cases, acted as risk predictors of suicidal ideation. Conversely, the reception of programs that promoted or strengthened spiritual life was a protective factor against suicidal ideation. Age and physical and mental health did not influence 1 Miguel Garcés-Prettel. Doctor en Comunicación y Profesor asociado en el
Pedagogia Social Revista Interuniversitaria, 2022
La evidencia empírica sobre la violencia en universidades se ha enfocado comúnmente en identific... more La evidencia empírica sobre la violencia en universidades se ha enfocado comúnmente en identificar conductas de agresión o acoso (bullying) entre estudiantes y en analizarlas en función del género y de variables psicosociales. Esta investigación correlacional-exploratoria aporta desde Colombia, una perspectiva novedosa al identificar actitudes frente a la violencia en contextos universitarios y las razones que dan los alumnos encuestados para justificarla por asuntos religiosos, académicos, económicos, políticos, étnicos y físicos o sexuales. Se aplicaron dos escalas confiables diligenciadas voluntariamente por 710 jóvenes universitarios colombianos con una edad promedio de 20 años. Los hallazgos indican que la justificación de la violencia en la universidad por razones físico-sexuales, económicas, religiosas, académicas e ideológicas está asociada significativamente con el género y con la actitud de las víctimas de buscar apoyo profesional y tolerar negativamente las conductas v...
Periodismos Latinoamericanos Perfil y Roles Profesionales
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Infociudadana, 2015
La descripción del perfil laboral y los roles profesionales de los periodistas de Argentina, Bras... more La descripción del perfil laboral y los roles profesionales de los periodistas de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador y México aporta evidencias de ciertas tendencias que ayudan a entender en qué consiste ser periodista en América Latina. Dentro del marco del proyecto Worlds of Journalism Studies (WJS),1 equipos de investigación de estos países analizaron los datos obtenidos a partir de una encuesta común durante los años 2013 y 2015. Este estudio de la situación profesional de los periodistas en América Latina se enmarca dentro de las redacciones de los medios de comunicación donde estos desarrollan su trabajo.
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2021
Las investigaciones recientes sobre la COVID-19 se han centrado en los efectos de esta pandemia e... more Las investigaciones recientes sobre la COVID-19 se han centrado en los efectos de esta pandemia en la salud pública, así como en los controles de bioseguridad y sus implicaciones socioeconómicas. El presente estudio mixto aporta una nueva mirada acerca del tema, combinando estrategias cualitativas y cuantitativas para identificar las representaciones sociales de la recepción mediática, en un sector de la población en Colombia, durante la cuarentena por la COVID-19. Los resultados indican que estas representaciones son diversas y están asociadas con el canal mediático y la afectación que produce la recepción en el estado de ánimo y la salud mental. En total, se realizaron 80 entrevistas y 1.068 encuestas online en diferentes regiones de Colombia. En la fase cualitativa se encontró que los programas o mensajes recibidos fueron representados positivamente, cuando provienen de la recepción de entretenimiento audiovisual y contribuye a la unidad familiar y a reducir el estrés en la cuare...
Social representations of media reception during the COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia: from messages to meanings
Cadernos de saude publica, 2021
Recent studies on COVID-19 have focused on the pandemic's effects on public health and the bi... more Recent studies on COVID-19 have focused on the pandemic's effects on public health and the biosafety controls and their socioeconomic implications. The current mixed-methods study takes a new look at the topic, combining qualitative and quantitative strategies to identify the social representations of media reception in a sector of the Colombian population during social isolation in the COVID-19 pandemic. The results indicate that these representations vary and are associated with the media channel and the effect the reception produces on mood and mental health. A total of 80 interviews and 1,068 online survey forms were applied in different regions of Colombia. The qualitative phase showed that the programs or messages received were represented positively when they came from audiovisual entertainment and contributed to the family unit and reduced stress during the lockdown. Meanwhile, media reception was represented negatively when the messages or news came from journalism or s...
Comunicar, 2020
School violence alludes to peer bullying and aggression in school. The field of communication has... more School violence alludes to peer bullying and aggression in school. The field of communication has studied school violence by analyzing the influence of media and interpersonal relationships on aggressive behaviors. This article provides a perspective on school violence and concentrates on determining the influence of interpersonal communication with parents and teachers on adolescent aggressors and victims in school contexts. A non-experimental correlational-transverse design was used with a sample of 1,082 adolescents (M=15,61; DT=0,90). Three reliable scales were implemented to assess adolescent aggression and parental and pedagogical communication. Findings indicate that aggressions among adolescents at school and the interpersonal communication with parents and teachers present differences associated with gender (p=0,00). At the family level, it was found that offensive communication among parents and children (?=0,225; p=0,00) predicts an increment on school victimization. At t...
Lumina, 2019
Este artigo tem dois objetivos principais: primeiro, com base em uma revisão histórica e contextu... more Este artigo tem dois objetivos principais: primeiro, com base em uma revisão histórica e contextual, traça algumas características definidoras do jornalismo colombiano. O segundo propósito, com base nos dados e nas principais conclusões da segunda fase do projeto Worlds of Jornalism Study (WJS), analisa variáveis ainda não exploradas em estudos empíricos no contexto colombiano, como papéis e influências dos jornalistas nas redações. Os resultados mostram que o jornalismo colombiano tem um forte componente partidário, intimamente ligado às elites políticas e econômicas do país. Entre os papéis identificados pelos jornalistas colombianos estão: reportar objetivamente, promover a tolerância e contribuir para a mudança social. Essa incongruência pode ser explicada pelas influências organizacionais significativas que os jornalistas percebem na forma de pressão de editores, políticas editoriais e proprietários de mídia. Possibilidades de futuros estudos comparados são sugeridas na seção f...
PSICOGENTE, Jun 18, 2018
Objetivo: Se presentan los resultados de una investigación correlacional que estableció la relaci... more Objetivo: Se presentan los resultados de una investigación correlacional que estableció la relación entre autoconocimiento y autorregulación emocional en universitarios colombianos. Método: La muestra estuvo compuesta por 356 sujetos entre 15 y 22 años, que cursaban carreras profesionales en tres universidades de Cartagena de Indias (Colombia). La información fue recolectada a través de la escala CARE, con una consistencia interna de 0.722 para autoconocimiento y 0.750 para autorregulación. Resultados: Los hallazgos revelan una asociación estadísticamente significativa entre los niveles de autoconocimiento emocional y los de autorregulación emocional de los participantes, encontrándose que a mayor percepción e identificación de las emociones, mayor es la probabilidad de desarrollar tolerancia a la frustración. De igual manera, se halló que la capacidad de hablar abiertamente de las emociones y de reconocer señales emocionales internas aumenta la probabilidad de regular los impulsos emocionales, de generar estrategias de afrontamiento y de desarrollar tolerancia a la frustración. Conclusión: La comunicación y el reconocimiento de las emociones son aspectos determinantes para que estos jóvenes puedan regular sus emociones y enfrentar o manejar adecuadamente los problemas cotidianos.
Saber, Ciencia y Libertad, 2019
Este artículo describe la autonomía profesional percibida por los periodistas colombianos en el c... more Este artículo describe la autonomía profesional percibida por los periodistas colombianos en el contexto del conflicto armado interno. Se trabajó con una muestra de 546 periodistas colombianos que diligenciaron el cuestionario de Autonomía Profesional creado por expertos del proyecto internacional «Worlds of Journalism Study» y complementado con temas relacionados con las víctimas del conflicto, la pobreza, el orden público, el medio ambiente, las minorías raciales, la corrupción, el crimen organizado y las guerrillas. La información fue recolectada entre 2013 y 2014, años en los cuales se desarrolló buena parte del proceso de paz entre el gobierno colombiano y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC-EP). Los hallazgos permitieron establecer que la autonomía periodística en Colombia se ejerció en este periodo a partir de dos niveles: producción y publicación noticias, siendo este último nivel en donde los periodistas percibieron mayores restricciones en su autonomía, e...
Saber Ciencia y Libertad, 2016
Colombia) que han sido beneficiarias del programa presidencial "Computadores para Educar". La inv... more Colombia) que han sido beneficiarias del programa presidencial "Computadores para Educar". La investigación fue de tipo descriptivo, con una muestra de 350 docentes de 27 escuelas del distrito. El instrumento utilizado es una adaptación del cuestionario de Jaramillo, Castañeda y Pimienta ( ), complementado con categorías sobre logros y dificultades en la inserción de estas tecnologías dentro de los procesos académicos. Los hallazgos revelan múltiples tipologías de docencia (personalista, sistematizador, documentador, expositor, participativo y pragmatista) a partir de los modos de integrar estos recursos en el aula, como también se revelan las diversas estrategias de uso, algunas de las cuales eran percibidas como generadoras de cambios pedagógicos, mientras otras eran consideradas viejas metodologías con nuevas tecnologías al servicio de la educación tradicional. tecnología de la información, docencia, estrategia de enseñanza.
Journalism, 2016
Professional autonomy has usually been defined in terms of journalists’ perceptions of their cont... more Professional autonomy has usually been defined in terms of journalists’ perceptions of their control over their work vis-à-vis organizational supervisors. Using surveys of journalists in Colombia and Mexico, we identify two dimensions of perceived autonomy: first, control over story development tasks (the traditional understanding of autonomy in empirical studies); second, the ability to actually publish news on a range of subjects associated with different levels of material or cultural power. We then identify predictors of both dimensions of autonomy. Physical threats, overlapping forms of inequality, and clientelism characterize pressures on autonomy in these two democracies. Journalists can carve out more space for autonomy by gaining professional experience or by creating new organizational arrangements and supporting analytical, change-oriented norms. By examining professional autonomy empirically in a broad range of contexts, we demonstrate that autonomy is more complex, situ...
Educación y Educadores, 2013
aspectos tratados se destaca que en su proceso de formación el doctorando requiere adquirir habil... more aspectos tratados se destaca que en su proceso de formación el doctorando requiere adquirir habilidades, bases éticas y conocimientos para desarrollar bien la investigación científi ca evidenciada en una tesis doctoral rigurosa, relevante y de excelente nivel. Lograrlo implica fundamentar epistemológica y metodológicamente el objeto de estudio, desarrollar buena capacidad de análisis, articularse a redes científi cas y comunidades académicas y, además, demostrar habilidades para la escritura científi ca y la búsqueda de información empírica desde bases de datos especializadas.
Family communication in subnormal settlements in Montería (Colombia)
Psicol. caribe, 2010
This study is the result of a quantitative investigation that describes the characteristics of co... more This study is the result of a quantitative investigation that describes the characteristics of communication within families in subnormal neighborhoods of the city of Montería. The methodological design started with an intentional sample of 300 families that belong to four subnormal settlements in the city of Montería. The information was obtained through the application of two surveys, one to measure the demographic characteristics of homes and the CFA questionnaire created by Garces (2004) to measure the levels of family communication. From the most important findings of this study, it is highlighted that nuclear families showed better levels of communication and relationship than monoparental and extended ones. However, independently from the type of family, it was found that the mother figure shows better development than the father figure in the emotional and regulating communication with the children. Another aspect to highlight is that four aspects were found to be an obstacle in the functional development of communication and family relationships: parents’ separation, psychological and physical abuse, the economical crisis and drug consumption.
Expanding Influences Research to Insecure Democracies
Journalism Studies, 2017
Democracies with sharp violence and public insecurity have proliferated in recent decades, with m... more Democracies with sharp violence and public insecurity have proliferated in recent decades, with many also featuring extreme economic inequality. These conditions have not been explicitly considered in comparative research on journalists’ work environments, an omission that may obscure important realities of contemporary journalism. We address this gap through analysis of journalist surveys in 62 countries. We confirm the existence of insecure democracies as an empirical phenomenon and begin to unravel their meaning for journalists. We find democracies with uneven democratic performance tend to have more journalist assassinations, which is the most extreme form of influence on work, and that levels of democratic performance, violence, public insecurity and economic inequality significantly shape how journalists perceive various influences in their work environment. Case studies of insecure democracies in Africa and Latin America address why these conditions sometimes (but not always) lead to journalist assassinations and other anti-press violence. They suggest anti-press violence is higher when sub-national state actors intensify criminal violence and when insecurity is geographically and topically proximate to journalists. How journalists’ perceive influences on work are therefore more complex and multidimensional than previous research has suggested. The study concludes by identifying areas for improvement in data collection.
Pedagogía Social. Revista Interuniversitaria, 2022
Abstract
Empiric evidence of the violence in the universities has focused commonly in identify a... more Abstract
Empiric evidence of the violence in the universities has focused commonly in identify aggressive behaviors or bullying between students and analyze it depending on genre and psychosocial variables. This correlational-exploratory investigation delivers from Colombia, an innovative perspective identifying manners against violence in university environments and the reasons given by the surveyed students to justify it based on religious, academic, economic, political, ethnic and sexual-physical aspects. To accomplish this goal, they were conducted two reliable scales filled out voluntarily by 710 Colombian university students with an average age of 20 years old. Findings indicate that the excuse of violence in the universities for sexual-physical, economic, religious, academical and ideological reasons is significantly associated with gender and aggressive behaviors suffered by the offender. Likewise, witnesses that justified the violence in the university had higher probability of becoming accomplices of the aggressor. These results reveal the need of implement educational strategies with a cognitive approach that allow to intervene multidimensionally in victims, aggressors and witnesses to achieve more effective results when it comes to prevent and decrease violent behaviors between young university students.
RESUMEN: La evidencia empírica sobre la violencia en universidades se ha enfocado co- múnmente en identificar conductas de agresión o acoso (bullying) entre estudiantes y en analizarlas en función del género y de variables psicosociales. Esta investigación correlacio- nal-exploratoria aporta desde Colombia, una perspectiva novedosa al identificar actitudes frente a la violencia en contextos universitarios y las razones que dan los alumnos encues- tados para justificarla por asuntos religiosos, académicos, económicos, políticos, étnicos y físicos o sexuales. Se aplicaron dos escalas confiables diligenciadas voluntariamente por 710 jóvenes universitarios colombianos con una edad promedio de 20 años. Los hallazgos indican que la justificación de la violencia en la universidad por razones físico-sexuales, económicas, religiosas, académicas e ideológicas está asociada significativamente con el género y con la actitud de las víctimas de buscar apoyo profesional y tolerar negativamente las conductas violentas sufridas por parte del agresor. Asimismo, los testigos que justificaban la violencia en la universidad tenían una mayor probabilidad de convertirse en cómplices del agresor. Estos resultados evidencian la necesidad de implementar estrategias educativas con un enfoque cognitivo que permita intervenir multidimensionalmente a víctimas, agresores y testigos para lograr resultados más eficaces a la hora de prevenir o reducir conductas violentas entre jó- venes universitarios.
Salud Uninorte, 2021
Objective: This descriptive-correlational study analyzed the relationship between family communic... more Objective: This descriptive-correlational study analyzed the relationship between family communication and perceived stress during the Covid-19 pandemic in Colombia.
Methods: The participants were 800 Colombians, between 18 and 91 years old (Mean = 33,91; Standard Deviation = 15,75), who responded with prior informed consent to three reliable instruments: Parent-Child Communication Scale (PACS), Perceived Stress Scale (EEP-10), and the Scale of Stressful Concerns in the Covid-19 Pandemic (EPEP).
Results: Findings revealed high levels of negative stress at the beginning and end of qua- rantine that had to do with economic, work, family, and health concerns. Family commu- nication proved to be a significant predictor of stress. In that sense, it was observed that
open communication between household members is associated with a reduction in nega- tive stress (r = -,103***). However, when communication at home is mediated by frequent offenses (β = ,719 ***), and is combined with health concerns (β =. 723 ***), and family co- existence (β =, 657***), it increases predictively high negative stress by up to 37.9% of the total variance.
Conclusions: these findings suggest strengthening family dialogue and collective coping strategies to reduce stress and learn to better manage concerns in this pandemic context surrounded by fears and uncertainties. Finally, recommendations from the fields of psycho- logy and communication in health are given to focus on preventive actions against high or chronic stress.
RESUMEN Objetivo: Este estudio descriptivo-correlacional analizó la relación entre la comunicación familiar y el estrés percibido durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en Colombia. Método: Participaron 800 colombianos entre 18 y 91 años (Media = 33,91; Desviación estándar = 15,75) que respondieron, con previo consentimiento informado, a tres instrumentos confiables:
Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Las investigaciones recientes sobre la COVID-19 se han centrado en los efectos de esta pandemia e... more Las investigaciones recientes sobre la COVID-19 se han centrado en los efectos de esta pandemia en la salud pública, así como en los controles de bioseguridad y sus implicaciones socioeconómicas. El presente estudio mixto aporta una nueva mirada acerca del tema, combinando estrategias cualitativas y cuantitativas para identificar las representaciones sociales de la recepción mediática, en un sector de la población en Colombia, durante la cuarentena por la COVID-19. Los resultados indican que estas representaciones son diversas y están asociadas con el canal mediático y la afectación que produce la recepción en el estado de ánimo y la salud mental. En total, se realizaron 80 entrevistas y 1.068 encuestas online en diferentes regiones de Colombia. En la fase cualitativa se encontró que los programas o mensajes recibidos fueron representados positivamente, cuando provienen de la recepción de entretenimiento audiovisual y contribuye a la unidad familiar y a reducir el estrés en la cuare...
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Papers by Miguel Efren Garcés Prettel
Empiric evidence of the violence in the universities has focused commonly in identify aggressive behaviors or bullying between students and analyze it depending on genre and psychosocial variables. This correlational-exploratory investigation delivers from Colombia, an innovative perspective identifying manners against violence in university environments and the reasons given by the surveyed students to justify it based on religious, academic, economic, political, ethnic and sexual-physical aspects. To accomplish this goal, they were conducted two reliable scales filled out voluntarily by 710 Colombian university students with an average age of 20 years old. Findings indicate that the excuse of violence in the universities for sexual-physical, economic, religious, academical and ideological reasons is significantly associated with gender and aggressive behaviors suffered by the offender. Likewise, witnesses that justified the violence in the university had higher probability of becoming accomplices of the aggressor. These results reveal the need of implement educational strategies with a cognitive approach that allow to intervene multidimensionally in victims, aggressors and witnesses to achieve more effective results when it comes to prevent and decrease violent behaviors between young university students.
RESUMEN: La evidencia empírica sobre la violencia en universidades se ha enfocado co- múnmente en identificar conductas de agresión o acoso (bullying) entre estudiantes y en analizarlas en función del género y de variables psicosociales. Esta investigación correlacio- nal-exploratoria aporta desde Colombia, una perspectiva novedosa al identificar actitudes frente a la violencia en contextos universitarios y las razones que dan los alumnos encues- tados para justificarla por asuntos religiosos, académicos, económicos, políticos, étnicos y físicos o sexuales. Se aplicaron dos escalas confiables diligenciadas voluntariamente por 710 jóvenes universitarios colombianos con una edad promedio de 20 años. Los hallazgos indican que la justificación de la violencia en la universidad por razones físico-sexuales, económicas, religiosas, académicas e ideológicas está asociada significativamente con el género y con la actitud de las víctimas de buscar apoyo profesional y tolerar negativamente las conductas violentas sufridas por parte del agresor. Asimismo, los testigos que justificaban la violencia en la universidad tenían una mayor probabilidad de convertirse en cómplices del agresor. Estos resultados evidencian la necesidad de implementar estrategias educativas con un enfoque cognitivo que permita intervenir multidimensionalmente a víctimas, agresores y testigos para lograr resultados más eficaces a la hora de prevenir o reducir conductas violentas entre jó- venes universitarios.
Methods: The participants were 800 Colombians, between 18 and 91 years old (Mean = 33,91; Standard Deviation = 15,75), who responded with prior informed consent to three reliable instruments: Parent-Child Communication Scale (PACS), Perceived Stress Scale (EEP-10), and the Scale of Stressful Concerns in the Covid-19 Pandemic (EPEP).
Results: Findings revealed high levels of negative stress at the beginning and end of qua- rantine that had to do with economic, work, family, and health concerns. Family commu- nication proved to be a significant predictor of stress. In that sense, it was observed that
open communication between household members is associated with a reduction in nega- tive stress (r = -,103***). However, when communication at home is mediated by frequent offenses (β = ,719 ***), and is combined with health concerns (β =. 723 ***), and family co- existence (β =, 657***), it increases predictively high negative stress by up to 37.9% of the total variance.
Conclusions: these findings suggest strengthening family dialogue and collective coping strategies to reduce stress and learn to better manage concerns in this pandemic context surrounded by fears and uncertainties. Finally, recommendations from the fields of psycho- logy and communication in health are given to focus on preventive actions against high or chronic stress.
RESUMEN Objetivo: Este estudio descriptivo-correlacional analizó la relación entre la comunicación familiar y el estrés percibido durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en Colombia. Método: Participaron 800 colombianos entre 18 y 91 años (Media = 33,91; Desviación estándar = 15,75) que respondieron, con previo consentimiento informado, a tres instrumentos confiables: