GENDER ORIENTED ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION DEGREE DETERMINATION AT UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DE AMBATO

Abstract

The depression and the anxiety are two of the affective disorders that have a great impact in the population in general. Same as in the university population, are two of the main reasons to be consulted by the university welfare service. That’s why, it’s important to evaluate the degree of the anxiety and depression in the students in the Tecnica University – Ambato. The current investigation is centered to identify the incidence of these affective disorders in the university students in the UTA, through the scores obtained in the Beck’s Depression inventory, the scale of depression of Hamilton and the scale of depression of Montgomery – Asberg in the case of depression and through the inventory of anxiety of Beck and the scale of anxiety of Hamilton. This study is not experimental, it’s a type of descriptive transversal. The results obtained don’t provide information about the predisposing, trigger o maintainers of the disorders investigated but it is an evidence of the presence in the university students, and it registers a great deal of the same in the students in the feminine gender.