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ALVARADO CORDERO, Silvia Elena  e  FRIAS QUESADA, Carmen María. Risk Factors in University Students Whose Parents Abuse Alcohol. Educación [online]. 2018, vol.42, n.2, pp.379-397. ISSN 2215-2644.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/revedu.v42i2.25760.

This article aims to present the main findings of the investigation "Psychosocial Risk Factors in a University Population”, conducted with students from the Rodrigo Facio Campus of the University of Costa Rica. Risk factors such as anxiety, co-dependency, low self-esteem, and depression were studied and related to the presence of characteristics of being an adult and the condition of parents who abused alcohol. The research was carried out in conjunction with staff members from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. The study was correlational and in order to gather information, an online questionnaire was completed. The initial version of the questionnaire was used in a research carried out in Puerto Rico, whose variables were the risk factors studied in this research. Voluntarily and under conditions of anonymity and confidentiality, two thousand nine students agreed to answer the questionnaire. Results show that most of the participants can be characterized as having a probability of co-dependency, symptoms of mild to moderate depression, no symptoms of anxiety and average and high self-esteem. No statistically significant differences in any of the factors studied were found between adult children of alcoholic parents and those of non-alcoholic parents. The findings of this study provide information that contributes to the understanding of the risk factors in university student population, and to propose actions to face them during counselling interventions.

Palavras-chave : Risk factors; Co-dependency; Self-esteem; Anxiety; Depression; Alcoholism.

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