Study of a scale to measure sadness and anger in adolescents from 12 to 17 years old at the En Busca de Un Mañana Educational Center

Abstract

This research is part of the topic of emotional situations at the level of adolescents and the tools used to measure emotional states such as Sadness and Anger. The study population is made up of schooled adolescents who attend Premedia education at the Educational Center in Search of a Tomorrow and who are in the age range of 12 to 17 years of age. The need to undertake specific actions to attend to the emotional states of students is an urgent task, which is why it is required in advance to undertake specific actions at the study level that lead to establishing and identifying the tools that allow objective measurement of emotional situations that with more frequently present by students and that require a professional approach, complemented by intervention strategies that channel situations to specialized care that allows the student to overcome the emotional condition they suffer from, as long as it is adverse to an optimal and normal biopsychosocial circumstance. The results achieved through the implementation of the study help to configure intervention strategies at the student level in order to meet the emotional needs they present and thus have a preventive impact on situations that affect various personal, academic, social and psychological aspects. Relatives of the students. The methodological proposal for the present study is structured as follows: The questionnaire was applied with students of 7th, 8th, and 9th of the Educational Center In Search of a Tomorrow, with the support of the teacher external to the study, in the implementation of the poll.