Resilience-Self Esteem-Psychological Well-Being and Intelectual Capacity of senior high school students who have high perfomances in vulnerable schools

Abstract

This article is a study of 175 seniors in high school from priority schools, with a high vulnerability index belonging to the VI Region of Chile. Their intellectual capacity, resilience, psychological well-being and self-esteem were assessed. There was a correlation between the different variables and school performance, and the results indicate the existence of a correlation between psychological well-being and resilience, self-esteem and resilience; psychological well-being and self-esteem, but there is no evidence of correlations with school performance. Subsequently, students were classified into three groups: high-performance, average, and a third group with low performance. There were found significant differences between the groups in their intellectual capacity, but not in the variables related to self-esteem, psychological well-being and resilience. There is evidence of differences among some subfactor of the administered scales.